Vishal Steel Centre

You can find us over in the Wadi GIDC Industrial Estate. It’s a gritty part of town, full of noise and heavy trucks, which is exactly where a steel centre belongs. We’ve been operating out of this spot for a good while. Dealing with steel means a lot of lifting and moving heavy stuff around all day. It’s dusty and the summer heat makes the metal hot to touch, but we’re used to it. Vishal is usually around the floor somewhere if you need to talk. We keep a variety of stock on hand because people in the estate always need something last minute for a repair or a new build. We don’t have a website or anything like that. People just drive their trucks up, tell us what they need, and we load it. It’s straightforward work. No one wears a tie here. We just focus on getting the right lengths and types of steel out the door. The traffic in GIDC can be a mess around lunch, so most of us just eat at the small stalls nearby. It's a community of workers here. We know the guys at the next unit and they know us. If we don’t have a specific pipe or beam, we usually know who does. It’s just how things work in Wadi. We stay busy and keep the gates open until the sun goes down. There is always more work to be done tomorrow.