Perfect Packaging Associates

Our place, Perfect Packaging Associates, is situated at Bg/P/191 in the Bhosari area. If you know Bhosari, you know it’s all about factories and warehouses. Our building is one of many on this strip. Inside, it’s mostly filled with rolls of plastic, stacks of cardboard, and the smell of tape. We have these old machines that cut and fold things to size. They are quite noisy, so we usually have to shout to hear each other over the hum. The floor is always covered in small scraps of paper and bits of string. We try to sweep up every evening, but by noon the next day, it’s back to how it was. We don't have a fancy lobby or a coffee machine for visitors. If you come by, you’ll probably find us wearing aprons and carrying heavy bundles to the loading dock. The sun hits the front of the building pretty hard in the afternoon, so we keep the big shutter half-closed to stay cool. It’s not the most glamorous job, but every product needs a box or a wrap, so we stay plenty busy. We have a small crew of workers who live nearby. We know their families and they know ours. It feels more like a small family workshop than a big corporation. We just keep our heads down and keep the machines running. Sometimes the tape dispenser jams and we lose ten minutes trying to fix it.