V K Engineering Company

V K Engineering Company is over at Block No B/8 in Salim Estate, Andheri East. It’s a typical industrial setup for this part of Mumbai. The estate is always full of trucks loading and unloading crates. We have a small workshop where we handle the engineering side of things. It’s usually oily and smells like cold metal, but that’s how a workshop should be if work is getting done. I’ve been working here since I was much younger, and the place hasn't changed much. We don’t have a fancy website or a marketing person. Most of our tools are old but they are reliable and we know how to use them. We spend most of our day measuring things and cutting steel. It's noisy work that makes your ears ring. Sometimes the neighbors complain, but then they start their own machines, and it all balances out. We have a small office upstairs, but it's mostly used for storing old blueprints and having a quick lunch when we have time. The stairs are a bit steep and narrow, so you have to be careful going up. We aren't trying to change the world. We just want to make sure the parts we make are correct and fit right. If something isn't right, we just fix it. That's the only way we know how to work. Salim Estate is a bit cramped, but we’ve been here so long it feels like home.