Guru Nanak Engineering & Foundry Works

Mehta Road can be a real headache with the trucks, but that’s the Industrial Focal Point for you. Guru Nanak Engineering & Foundry Works is at number 166. If you walk in, the first thing you’ll notice is the heat. Foundries aren't exactly cool places to hang out. We spend a lot of time around the furnaces and the sand molds. It’s gritty work. My father started this, and now we just keep it going the best we can. We don't have fancy office chairs or air conditioning in the workshop. Mostly, it’s just us in our work clothes, making sure the metal pours right. You learn a lot about patience when you're waiting for things to cool down. There’s always a layer of dust on everything, no matter how much we sweep. We’ve had the same neighbors for ages, and we all kind of look out for each other on this stretch of road. We don't do much advertising. People usually find us because they heard from someone else that we do okay work. It’s not a complicated setup. We have our tools, our materials, and a bit of a routine that works for us. Sometimes things go wrong, a machine breaks or a shipment is late, but we just deal with it and move on. It’s a simple life, but it’s honest work that keeps us busy from sunrise to sunset. That's just how it is around this part of town.