Inside MÜHLE: Anja Schmidt
Anyone traveling to Hundshübel by car and parking on the MÜHLE company grounds will likely first encounter Anja Schmidt and her colleagues. Behind large glass windows overlooking the courtyard sits the five-member brush-making team. Large work tables, bright lighting, high ceilings – and a lot of concentrated silence. Every shaving brush from MÜHLE, which leaves the factory after many steps, first passes through the hands of Anja or her colleagues.
In just the right proportion, the mixtures of hair and fibers arrive in their department and are then processed into brush heads. Colleague Daniel Löffler is usually responsible for these mixtures. The ratio of fibers and hair, short and long, wavy and straight, must be almost perfectly balanced. In the first step, Anja and her colleagues weigh the amounts for each individual brush to a tenth of a gram, of course, before they are combed out with great precision. No hair can be too short or too long, and certainly none can be out of place. The mixtures are then tapped into cups, which give the brush its famous rounded shape. A small ring is then placed over the other end, which holds the hairs together – like the ribbon on a bouquet of flowers. The ring is filled with glue, the so-called two-component adhesive. This creates a bond between the ring and the hairs. After the glue has hardened for two hours, a second layer of glue is added, which dries for another two hours. This ensures that no hair is loose. Finally, the brush head is freed from all aids – and it is ready.
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