Raj Plastic Industries

We run Raj Plastic Industries from a couple of units, 44 and 45, in the Por-ramangamdi GIDC area. It’s located out in the Vadodara district, quite a distance from the main city center. Our office is actually in a different spot, at a place called Rajdeep in the Nutanbharat Society over in Malkarpur. It’s a bit of a split setup. We do all the plastic work at the GIDC units where we have the space for the machines and the raw materials. It gets pretty hot in those sheds during the summer, but we are used to it by now. The office is much quieter. We’ve lived and worked in Vadodara for a long time, and the plastic business has its ups and downs. Some days are slow, others we can barely keep up with the orders coming in. We don't try to act like we are some big corporation. It’s just us, some reliable machines, and a lot of hard work. The roads out to Por can be a bit rough after the rains, but deliveries still get through. We keep our overheads low so we can just focus on making things correctly. Most of our neighbors in the estate are doing similar things, so there's a bit of a community feel there. We take our tea breaks together and complain about the electricity bills. It’s just a normal way of making a living. We have been at this for years and plan to stay a while longer. It keeps us busy.