New India Match Company

We are out in Village Shankarpur, which is part of the Ramnagar area in Nainital district. It’s a bit of a drive to get here, but it’s where our facility is located. New India Match Company has been around this area for a good while. Working in a village like Khazanchi means we know most of the people who live nearby. Many of them work with us here. We make matches, which is a very specific kind of work. It involves a lot of machines and keeping a close eye on the materials. The air around the factory has a certain smell to it, mostly wood and the chemicals we use for the tips. It’s not a quiet place when the machines are running. We start early in the morning, often before the sun is fully up, to get things moving. Our office isn't anything fancy; it’s just a room with some old desks and files where we keep track of the production numbers. We don't really do much in the way of selling ourselves. The work speaks for itself, and we just focus on getting the crates loaded and shipped out to where they need to go. Life here in Ramnagar is slower than the big cities, and we like it that way. It’s hard work, but it’s steady, and it provides for a lot of families in the village.