According to reports, there is currently only one company specializing in the production of brushes in Austria, namely Zavodsky, a family company founded in 1947 and located in Lower Austria. At present, the company produces more than 800 products for painters, artists, paint workers and students. They use. At the same time, the company's products are sold only in specialty stores under the Selekt brand.
　　
　　 According to Rudolf Zavodsky, the heir and operator of the company, with the growing of pigs in captivity and the popularity of lean pig feeding, the elasticity of bristles has been greatly reduced. The bristles are made of brushes. For many years, the company's raw materials have mainly relied on imported Chinese bristles. At the same time, due to the warming of the climate, the production of Siberian ferret bristles, which is an important added raw material, is also decreasing, and it is currently out of stock.

　　 The shortage of natural raw materials and the increase in mechanization have not only affected Zavodsky, but also caused some changes in the brush production industry. The main raw material for the production of brushes is the replacement of bristles made of synthetic materials, and these raw materials are mainly imported from Japan. In the past, the company used purely manual methods to produce 60 brushes per hour, while the output of mechanized brushes can reach 2,000 brushes per hour, so the number of workers has been reduced from 90 to 11 at present. As a result, the current apprenticeship in the Austrian brush making industry has also been forced to cancel. From the cooking, drying, mixing, and correct matching of the length, softness and hardness of the bristles, it is all done by the feeling of the fingers. It is a purely manual technical work.
　　
　　 Now Mr. Zavodsky’s son has begun to learn the craftsmanship of his father’s generation and set foot in the company’s business. The company’s future is full of hope. He completely invented the brush processing equipment according to the family's traditional technology. He requires employees to strictly follow the operating procedures to process and produce, only in this way can they guarantee the production of orders for 10,000 brushes per ticket at a time in a short time. The company will continue to maintain a certain scale, so as to ensure the flexibility of the company to respond to various changes in the industry at any time.
　　
　　 In addition to supplying the domestic market, Zavodsky's products are also for export. The main markets are Switzerland and Sweden. At present, the company's annual turnover is about 500,000 Euros. The owners of the company firmly believe that their family business will not go bankrupt, because their products are of high quality and have a reputation of "Once used, never abandoned".