Venkata Sai Ice Company

Venkata Sai Ice Company is tucked away at Sy No 192, Plot No 276 in Chinna Adisherlapally Village, near H/O Kond. Making ice in this heat is a constant battle against the weather. We have these big tanks and freezing units that stay running all day and night to keep up with the demand. The floor is almost always wet and there is a cold mist that hangs in the air inside the plant, which is actually quite nice when it is forty degrees outside. We spend a lot of time handling heavy blocks and making sure they get loaded onto the insulated trucks before they start to melt too much. It is a simple business but it requires a lot of attention to the machinery. If a compressor goes down, we are in trouble, so there is always someone poking around the engines with a wrench. Most of our workers live right here in Chinna Adisherlapally, so they don't have far to travel. We don't have a polished showroom because we just sell ice. People come to the gate, tell us what they need, and we load them up. It is a lot of repetitive work, pulling blocks out of the molds and sliding them across the floor. Sometimes the village roads get a bit muddy during the rainy season, making it hard for the bigger trucks to get in, but we usually manage to find a way to keep things moving.