Skandia Cutting Dies Pvt. Ltd.

Skandia Cutting Dies Pvt. Ltd. is situated in the Sidco Industrial Estate in Ambattur. The address is a bit confusing because it has a New Number 170 and an Old Number 257, but once you find it, it’s hard to miss the sound of the place. Being in an industrial estate means there is always a lot of heavy machinery noise and the smell of metal in the air. Our workshop is where most of the action happens. It’s not a clean-room environment; there is grease on the tables and metal shavings on the floor by the end of the shift. We make cutting dies, so precision is part of the job, even if the building itself looks a bit worn down from the outside. The walls are stained and the ceiling fans work hard to move the humid Chennai air. We don’t have a fancy showroom. If someone comes to see us, they usually walk right into the middle of the work area. It is a practical, blue-collar kind of place. Most of the staff have been working with these machines for a long time and know their sounds by heart. We take our breaks together and talk about the local news or whatever is happening in Ambattur. Every morning the tea stall nearby gets our first order, and that's how we start the day before the machines get cranked up. It can get dusty when neighbors are moving inventory, but it’s just how things go around here.