I know my old one was made in Germany, where are the current ones made?
Well most likely in Asia, or another low labor cost country.. It used to be Eheim gmbh, but nowadays its & Co already. It simply means they became a Trade Mark and licence foreign facturies to produce their patented designs. There no longer is a Eheim factury situated in Germany. Maybe still a small assembly line for a small part of their products, than manufacture the parts elsewhere essamble it in Germany and they are intitled to put Made in Germany on it.
Same as Mercedes Benz does nowadays.. Made in Germany?. No way, not anymore, maybe essambled in Germany.. Go and buy spare parts at the official dealer if you drive a Mercedes and inspect the box containing the part. It says "Genuine MB part - Made in Chez Republic. I still drive an 1982 Benz, it containes parts made heavy dutty by SWF. These parts are already 20 years out of stock SWF no longer excists and its replaced with plastic Chez Republic parts. Zip is made in Germany anylonger. With every Geniune MB spare part i restore my old Benz it actualy slowly turns into a Skoda.
The same goes for Eheim, the old fashion resource materials used 25 years ago are depleted.. What they still have is the Blue prints from the classic designs. Than send this over to cheaper producing foriegn low labor cost factories and reproduce it with the todays best available materials under Eheim licence.
Lately i asked a local LFS for Eheim.. They said no longer trade Eheim products.. They switched to Eden, because its cheaper and beter quality. Hence Eden gives a longer factury warrenty than Eheim does.
And even Eden is a Trade Mark.. This you can see that at the non patented designs.. Other trade marks sell the very same products with a different brand name. Thus it roles out the very same factury, only the name they put on is different.
Not saying Eheim is bad, but you definitively pay a lot (If not to much) for the name they made in the past..