HushTug's workshop has expanded to become one of the largest in Mongolia!
hello everyone!
This is a HushTug Hariuner.
We have some great news at the Mongolian Workshop!
As some of you may already know, the HushTug workshop moved at the beginning of this month.
We are pleased to announce that the number of our craftsmen has increased since the beginning of 2020, and our previous workshop has become a little cramped, so in order to improve production efficiency, we have relocated from Khan'ul District in Ulaanbaatar to Bayanzurkh District (a little further in the countryside).
The new workshop is four times larger than the previous one!
We found our current property by chance when we were considering relocating and spoke to the president of Monile (the company that tans leather for HushTug) about it, and he recommended a property he owned.
This time we will be introducing our new workshop and our move.
table of contents
- Interior decoration and cleaning of newly contracted workshop
- Preparing for and moving
- Interior decoration and cleaning of the previous workshop
- summary
Interior decoration and cleaning of newly contracted workshop
Here's a photo before we started on the interior.
It had previously been used by a car wash and repair company, so the floors and walls were made of cement and there was a drain in the middle.
It would take a lot of time and money to turn it into a bag workshop, so the owner was kind enough to do most of the interior work on the first floor, including the floors, walls and ceilings .
The cement floors have all been replaced with shiny marble floors, the walls and ceilings have been cleaned and the color has been unified to white, creating a very clean workshop!
The walls and ceilings on the first floor look beautiful!
1. Creating a rubber glue workshop
As you can see in the previous photo, the floors, walls, and ceilings were all finished when the workshop was handed over.
Of course, this is not the end of the first floor interior.
On the first floor, we had to build walls from scratch to create a rubber glue workroom , and everyone in the workshop built the rooms and fixtures necessary for this production by themselves.
Of course, there were no blueprints, so we decided on the layout of the rooms based on priorities, the location of ventilation fans and water taps, etc.
First of all, we started by creating the glue room, which had to be created as a priority given the position of the ventilation fan.
Because rubber glue has a strong smell, we needed to create a room with a ventilation fan, so we started by building the walls of the rubber glue room.
We start by cutting out the iron that will form the framework of the walls.
The craftsman in the photo is a new employee who joined the company one month ago and is not a specialist, so he just cuts out the images normally (laughs).
The wall frame is complete.
They were so efficient that they all started looking like architects (laughs).
The frame we just finished is now becoming a wall. I'm looking forward to seeing it finished!
Once you attach the door to the wall, the glue room is complete.
Mr. Kawada was surprised that we were an interior design company (laughs).
The glue room is complete.
The side of the room is made of glass so that you can see the people working inside.
2. Installing lighting 
* Each one is carefully cleaned before being lined up and put back together.
(Of course, I had a professional do the electrical wiring.)
3.Exterior painting
Next, we repainted the exterior iron frame in some places, as there were some faded parts.
4. At the end, everyone cleans the entire workshop.
We all work together to clean small areas such as walls and pipes by wiping them with water.
Everyone was pretty meticulous and did a great job cleaning it up (laughs).
Finally, during the interior work, wood chips were laid down to prevent the floor from getting scratched, so once the work was finished we all cleaned it up together and the interior work on the workshop was completed successfully!
Thanks to the craftsmen who usually make bags helping out with interior work, cleaning, and other tasks, we were able to complete the preparations for the move without any problems.
I also learned that they were all very skillful and could do anything, and it was very refreshing to see a new side to the craftsmen.
I think it's thanks to everyone that the HushTug workshop was established. I'm really happy.
Preparing for and moving
Now that the interior of the new workshop is ready, we are finally starting the process of moving in from the old workshop.
We all worked together to prepare the machinery and sewing machines for transport, and we sorted and organized the tools in cardboard boxes before putting them away.
For this move, the entire move was completed in two trips using one truck.
The moving company came to collect our belongings on time and the move went smoothly.
Moving companies in Mongolia often do not arrive on time, and the company I used previously often took a long time, even going beyond the scheduled time.
There was a lot of heavy luggage, such as machines and sewing machines, so we all worked together to load it.
At last, the move is complete.
The photo shows the first floor of the new workshop, which will be the new work space for our craftsmen.
The move was now completed successfully, but the new workshop has a second floor and there is still a lot of work to be done, as electrical repairs have not yet been completed.
For now, we have to resume production in May, so our first priority has been setting up the work space.
Interior decoration and cleaning of the previous workshop
In Mongolia, moving is said to be as difficult as a fire, flood or other disaster.
In Japan, moving simply involves moving your belongings from your old home to your new home, but moving in Mongolia doesn't just involve moving your belongings; it also involves cleaning up the interior of your previous home.
So we did the interior design of the previous workshop ourselves.
We all repainted the walls of the glue room.
Our driver, Pooja, was also helpful.
The kitchen interior was repainted by four people: two craftsmen, our manager Nallah, and myself.
It was my first time painting a wall, but it was surprisingly fun.
summary
It took us about two weeks to work together on the interior, cleaning, and tidying up.
The interior construction of a workshop was a completely new experience for me, so to be honest, when we first decided to do the interior construction ourselves, I thought we wouldn't be able to do it. However, surprisingly, if we all worked together we could make it work, and I realized that there might be nothing we couldn't do.
The first floor of the new workshop is now open for business as usual, with bag production progressing smoothly.
The work space on the first floor is ready, but the lights are not yet on in the office room that was originally planned to be built on the second floor, so I am temporarily using the table and chair I just assembled near the entrance on the first floor as my work space.
Everyone at the workshop often laughs at me for being a receptionist (laughs).
This is the end of this blog. In the next update I will show you the new workshop.
Stay tuned!
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