Hindustan Breweries & Bottling Ltd.

The facility is over at C/23-24 in the Wagle Industrial Estate. If you’ve ever been to this part of Thane, you know it’s filled with factories and warehouses. At Hindustan Breweries & Bottling Ltd., the main thing you notice is the sound of glass clinking. The bottling lines are almost always running, and it’s a constant rhythm that you get used to after a couple of days. We spend most of our shifts making sure the machines are filled and the bottles are capped right. It’s heavy work, and the floors are often wet because we’re always cleaning things down. We wear heavy aprons and boots because it’s the only way to stay dry. The office is just a small room near the front gate where we handle the delivery logs and the payroll. It’s nothing special, just some metal desks and a lot of filing cabinets. We don’t have a lot of visitors, mostly just truck drivers coming to pick up loads or mechanics coming to fix a pump. The summer heat in the estate is pretty intense, especially with the steam from the cleaning lines, but we have big exhaust fans that help a bit. It’s just a regular factory job. We show up, do the bottling, and make sure the trucks are loaded before the day ends. It’s honest work and we’ve been doing it this way for years. We just keep our heads down and work.