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job, and pleaded with her to at least give me a chance to talk to the supervisor in the
department. It just so happened that the supervisor had a big backlog of orders in the
lathe department, and asked me if I could operate a lathe, and gave me a test. My
machine shop practice at UVCE was a great help. I got the job, and I had to buy a car
for $150 to commute to this job. With the car and the overtime in that company, and
a second job, I was working as much as 20 hours a day, and was able to make enough
money to pay for 2 years of my college. Perseverance & hard work are always fruitful.

After graduating from college, I went back to the same Plastics Company, got my visa
and I eventually became the Plant Manager & boss of the Supervisor that had originally
hired me. My goal at that point was to save $10,000 and go back to Bangalore & start my
own manufacturing Company. After a couple of years, this company owner’s son took
my job & I was fired for no reason. Humiliated by this experience, I made up my mind
not to work for any other company and wanted to start my business more than ever
before. This gave me enough motivation and reason to start on my own before I had any
other financial responsibilities to my family. Because this is what I always wanted to do. I
postponed having any children or buying a house & I asked my wife to work and support
me for 2 years while starting my company as a one-man operation. My Company was
self-sustaining within a year. Because of my hands-on capability of making molds and
operate many machines, I was able to make many molds for customers that already had
molds in other companies, so they could switch their sources, without having to pay for
molds again.

I chose a company name Polyurethane Products Corporation, so if anyone is looking for
any Polyurethane Products, our company name comes up first on any search engine. In
the first year of business I attended 10 trade shows & exhibitions, and got many business
contacts and new product ideas based on problems that engineers were facing in their
plants. While solving problems that these engineers were facing, I started developing
many new products that were innovative & unique. Standard products that anyone
with similar applications could buy a standard stock products. Because of my ability to
design and manufacture many of the molds that were required to produce these parts,
I was able to produce these parts at a very low cost. Our specialty and niche is Ure-
thane Tooling for Sheet metal bending applications. We have Polyurethane (or urethane)
bending dies that can bend up to 10mm thick stainless steel sheets into radius shapes
without any die marks. As compared to conventional tooling, this method is better and
cost less than half as much. To meet the demand from our customers, I started another
complementary company Press Brake Tooling Corporation, where we manufacture steel
Press Brake Tooling. If someone is looking for a tooling set-up to bend sheet metal into
radius shapes, we are the only company in the world that can manufacture the steel
punch and the Polyurethane Die, in lengths up to 10 meters. In both companies, I always
buy the biggest and the best technology machines available for production. We are one
of the top manufacturing companies in our field not only in USA, but in the world. We
export our products all over the world. Our products are used for bending polished
Stainless Steel sheets used in appliances, medical devices, architectural applications ( for
example, in Singapore where many buildings have Stainless steel façade, and are bent

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