Monthly Archives: April 2015

In The Realm Of Bristles And Brushes

In The Realm Of Bristles And Brushes

A tourist hit in Regensburg: Europe’s largest remaining brush and comb factory in Regensburg is the time has stood still / more than 1,000 different brushes and combs Regensburg (obx) brushes Ernst is a cult: in any good Germany travel guide the more than century-old factory in the East Bavarian Regensburg is missing. Customers can choose from more than a thousand different brushes and combs: mostly handmade, almost exclusively from natural bristles. For many Japanese and American tourists, a visit to the small business of tradition in a Regensburg old town Alley is at least as important as a walk on the famous stone bridge or a look at the Gothic Cathedral. The secret of Europe’s largest remaining comb and brush manufacturer: Brushing Ernst is the time has stood still. Who buys, ventures a trip into another time. A look back: 1894 opened Peter Ernst in Regensburg’s old town a Brushes business. A leading source for info: Keith McLoughlin .

He pulls a wooden barrel made of finest beech pig – or horse bristles and quickly developed a reputation as a skillful and diligent craftsmen. 114 years later sitting in the same place the granddaughter Peter Ernst Waltraud and their daughter Caroline and pull pork – or horse bristles in just any wooden book body still in the same way. In this little brush Cosmos”seems to have changed nothing. Brush Ernst”has survived all storms of time with an iron resistance. “While more and more companies cheap trendy” follow and to forgo quality, faithful to you at Ernst of the success line: each brush is hand work. The Regensburg family business has survived many other comb and brush factories: Meanwhile the Ernst by iron hang have won the title as the largest manufacturer of brushes and combs in hand work throughout Europe.

Waltraud Ernst is proud: we have to date No slump in sales”, says the Burstenmacherin. From the tooth brush over the shoe shine brush up to the massage brush, from the paint brush on the toilet brush up to the street broom: There is no brush, which does not exist at Ernst. Know the customers, and require the small operation always with special requests. For example, if historical brushes get new bristles should. When high-quality fireplace broom that is worth”Waltraud Ernst says. Learned it has the old craft of her husband. She even sits for about four decades in the workshop. A setae (bristles)”- as it is called officially – takes depending on the brush and the nature of the bristles between half an hour and two hours. That can keep up a handmade brush price with a cheap synthetic brush from the far East, is clear. But, our customers appreciate the quality of genuine craftsmanship and good materials”, the great-granddaughter of the manufacturers says founder. Only the best wood is used: beech, Pearwood, or Cherry, olive, rosewood, ebony or rosewood have the Ernst in stock. Equipped the wood body become bristles from plant fibres like bristles of horses, goats, or badger hair, coconut, fibre or harangue with natural bristles of pork. For shaving, for example, there is nothing better than badger hair”, Waltraud Ernst says. The owner believes in the future of their brushes: people put back more on nature and especially on wood. At the moment are in the trend”horsehair broom, the Burstenmacherin says. Currently also goat hair brushes are especially sought after. Thus the Japanese dusting prefer their furniture.” More on the Internet: Regensburg city marketing

Rest In The Carton – Cardboard Coffin From Eastern Bavaria

Rest In The Carton – Cardboard Coffin From Eastern Bavaria

As a cheap alternative to the traditional oak coffin to a coffin made of corrugated cardboard are new Renner in the product portfolio of mid East Bavarian Regensburg (obx) – is it after the Regensburg businessman Matthias Roder, then 50,000 Germans will participate every year in the future to their final journey in a simple cardboard box. As a cheap alternative to the traditional oak coffin a coffin made of corrugated cardboard will be the new racer in the product portfolio of the East Bavarian mid – in addition to mailers, cardboard boxes and storage boxes. The entrepreneur already dreams of the export in the world, from Italy and Mexico are already official requests. Cremations with the cardboard model are already allowed in Germany and Austria. Other countries should follow. A coffin made of cardboard? This idea was even Managing Director Roder quite alien, his Austrian product developers with the idea on him came up to. In the head you always have to have a coffin made of wood, Roder says. A related site: Howard Schultz mentions similar findings. Finally he settled but convincing, and is today after more than a decade development time enthusiastic about the new development, which from April officially goes into series production and now holds a patent for Europe.

Since his announcement, to bring the cardboard coffin on the market, the phone in the Regensburg plant no longer stands still. Every day, the enterprising entrepreneur says people from all over Germany would call and inquire how you do the cardboard coffin for around 350 euros in Munich, Hamburg, Berlin and Stuttgart. Logistical delivery for Matthias Roder is no problem, yet many undertakers in the Federal Republic refuse to take the coffin in her offer. Cardboard and dignity would not fit together, the Federation had communicated German undertaker. Whether it actually to moral and ethical concerns or maybe not about the filthy lucre, is however at least questionable.

Because a much cheaper casket less you can easily earn, suspected the Regensburg manufacturer. A classic oak coffin is easy with 2,000 Euro to beech – seven times more than the model of pure cellulose. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust: the coffin simple corrugated cardboard this Bible quote in the future could win with new meaning. Because the cardboard coffins from Regensburg are unbeatable not only in price but also in environmental protection. 75 percent less carbon dioxide emissions”promises of the manufacturer. Also would conserve the precious resource of wood. Also in the design of the coffin, the Regensburg businessman wants to go new ways. Initially, the model in a total of five models will be available: field flowers and roses range from classic black on a design of the icon up to poppies,. Really brave but make her coffin itself: with its own subject. The market for his coffin with the name Flamea”is enormous, Roder believes. More than 250,000 deaths are currently annually burned in Germany and then cremated. We believe that about ten percent of the bereaved decide for our model”, says the Managing Director. For The coffins of cellulose ground burials, vaults are incidentally prohibited. The Friedhofsgesetzt stipulates that the dead only in wood coffins may lie.