Maruti Agarbatti Works

Our place is located at Plot G-1950/1 on Road 5 in Metoda Gidc. It is a very large industrial zone with many factories. When you walk near Gate 2 you can usually smell the incense in the air. We spend our days mixing the raw materials and rolling the sticks by hand or machine. It is a lot of manual work and your hands get dirty. The dust from the aromatic powders gets on everything in the shop so we wear old clothes that we do not mind ruining. We have been doing this for a long time. It is a family-run sort of business. We have several people from the local area who come in every morning to help us out. It is a steady rhythm once you get started. You get used to the heavy smell after a few minutes but visitors always notice it immediately. The floors are always a bit stained from the different dyes we use for the sticks. It is not a showroom for customers to visit. It is a factory where things actually get made. We pack everything into cardboard boxes and send them out on the trucks that come by. The heat in Metoda can be pretty bad during the summer months. We have some big fans but they mostly just move the warm air around the room. There is always another batch to start so we stay very busy.