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As a mechanical engineering technician, he has successfully completed numerous projects for industrial companies, such as paperless production, process optimization, automation and supporting management tools in the spirit of Industry 4.0.

Schellenberger Bürstenfabrik GmbH celebrated its repdigit birthday with an open day. Numerous business partners visited the company premises and spent exciting, informative and pleasant hours together with us.

Erwin Schellenberger passed away on 21.10.2018. It is thanks to his work that the company is now in its 4th generation. After his release from captivity in 1945, he stood before the ruins of the company and had not only the vision but also the courage to rebuild the company together with his brother Richard. We mourn the loss of a great entrepreneur, father and friend.

Schellenberger Bürstenfabrik GmbH constructs a modern administration building with spacious meeting and conference rooms, which enable a significant increase in the training intensity of existing as well as new employees.

In 1985, Erwin Schellenberger, among others, founded the German Brush and Paintbrush Museum in Bechhofen. He contributed to the success of the museum through his many years of service.

For the first time, the company is sponsoring several apprentices in different training professions.

Gisela Schellenberger accompanies the redesign of the company: a modern logo, a new internet presence as well as contemporary flyers, catalogues & Co. freshen up the traditional company. With these trend-setting measures, Wolfgang and Gisela Schellenberger lead the brush factory into the 21st century.

Until then, one or the other employee could be seen commuting between the two locations on his company bicycle.

Lack of space: We move our production from Feuchtwanger Straße to Rudolf-Diesel-Straße.

Schellenberger bought a piece of land nearby and built a four-storey administration building on it.

Erwin Schellenberger, a trained mechanical engineer, designed machines that gave the brush factory a reputation as an innovative company in the years to come. Numerous orders could be accepted due to the resulting more efficient production.

At the end of the war, Erwin Schellenberger returned from captivity and, together with Richard, stood before the ruins of the brush factory. All the raw materials had been used up, all the machines destroyed. The brothers decided to rebuild the company and began to manufacture brushes and twisted brushes by hand.

Johann Schellenberger died unexpectedly on 16 August 1942. Maria Schellenberger continued to run the company with 200 employees until its destruction in 1945.

Economic boom due to supplying the Reich’s army: At the beginning of the Second World War, 90 employees manufactured numerous products for the armaments industry. A new warehouse and another floor on top of the administration building were needed and built.

The product range of the brush factory (at that time still Johann Schellenberger KG) included brushes for the shoe industry, pharmaceutical brushes and adhesive brushes.

Around 100 years ago, the Schellenberger brush factory employed 36 people.

On 8 November 1913, Johann Schellenberger established a basis for his future company by passing the master craftsman’s examination.

Johann Schellenberger began his apprenticeship as a brush maker at the age of 21. At the workplace he got to know the art of brush making and his future wife Maria. A few months after their wedding, on 15 July 1907, he ambitiously registered his own business in the trade register of Bechhofen. Thereupon, the “medical-pharmaceutical brush factory” produced custom-made brushes of all kinds on Steindecker’s behalf.