Puna Forge Pvt. Ltd.

We are set up at Plot No. 73 in Jyotiba Nagar, which is part of the Gat No. 70 area in Talawade. Puna Forge Pvt. Ltd. has been here for a while now, and we’ve seen the neighborhood change as more shops and factories opened up around us. Our place is basically a big shed filled with the heavy sounds of forging and hammers hitting metal. It’s loud, and the ground vibrates a bit when the bigger machines are running on a full shift. We wear our earplugs and just get on with the work. The job is very physical and you end the day feeling it in your back and shoulders. We have a small crew and everyone knows what they’re supposed to do without being told. There isn't a lot of talking during the day because you can't hear much over the equipment anyway. We take our tea breaks together and talk about the news or the local cricket scores. Talawade is a busy industrial hub, so there are always trucks coming in with raw materials or picking up finished batches for delivery. The yard gets a bit cluttered sometimes with scrap metal and empty pallets, but we try to clear it out when we have a slow afternoon. We don’t have a flashy website or any marketing people. We just have our names on the sign and our tools on the workbenches. It’s a grit-and-grime kind of life, but we like the feeling of making something solid that will last a long time.