Eheim

The Eheim GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of aquarium accessories. The company is based in Deizisau east of Stuttgart. Managing Director Armin Luczkowski. The company is a 100 - % - owned subsidiary of Eheim Verwaltungs GmbH, Deizisau.

Eheim produces a variety of external filters, internal filters, pond filters, water pumps, aquarium air pumps, filter materials, vents, pipes, feeders and other accessories aquaristisches. Eheim claims to be the world leader for external filter systems and the only supplier of filters with integrated heating element and the "wet and dry " filter, a Filterungsart with very high degradation efficiency.

The company also offers internal filter. Be used Eheim products for the PC water cooling, while the devices are considered to be very volatile and quiet.

Eheim products are exported to over 60 countries. In Deizisau, the production site, about 250 employees are working.

History

Founded by Gunther Eheim on March 13, 1949 was actually dedicated to " repair and manufacture of technical toys". Particularly well known for his model was Eheim trolley buses, known as trolley bus H0. Further known model railway accessories the 50s/60s were with and without electro-mechanical functioning elevator of the radio and television tower, the cable - suspension railway H0, the chairlift H0, the Kanzelwandbahn H0, the Loren funicular H0 and the functional rail trolley VW T1; another single product was the Stratos tethered aircraft. Their production in 1963 - issued to the company Brawa - along with the entire model division.

A centrifugal pump with magnetic coupling, which was used for a model - fountain, was the basis for the invention of an external filter. The first so-called suction filter is 1963 in mass production. These were a canister filter in the water flowing from the bottom and various filter media passes. A pump on the pump head conveys the water back into the aquarium. This principle has remained the same for the Eheim filters the Classic Series.

Since 1986, the company also provides water filter for outdoor use, such as garden ponds, ago.

In 1993, the company Eheim MP Aquariums ( Mueller and Pfleger), a resident of Rockhausen manufacturers of glass aquariums. According to the company MP is number three on the European market aquariums. Employees are about 50 employees.

In 2003, the company Eheim Eugen Jäger GmbH in Wüstenrot, is the world claims to be the market leader for heating elements in aquariums. These were sold until 2003 in America under the name EEO Jaeger; EBO represents Eberhard Böttcher, who exported the devices together with Wolfgang Jäger in the United States.

Since 2004, the company operates under Eheim aquatics group.

EHEIM 2011, the brand has been defined as an umbrella brand for the group: All products of the EHEIM group are marketed only under the brand EHEIM.

Company founder Gunther Eheim died on February 2, 2013 at the age of 93 years.

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