Comments on: Bubble King Cone skimmer coming much sooner than expected

By: Jansen

Jansen — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:35:55 +0000

All Vertex-Cones are made in Cologne/Germany in our Factory and not in China.. The complete Skimmer, include the Red Dragon Pumps, was made in Germany.
The Toolings for the Vacuum-Moldings was made in Cologne.
Vertex ordert the Toolings and pay for the Development, CNC-Programming and now, Vertex is the exclusiv Owner of this Skimmerline.

regrads … Klaus Jansen

By: James

James — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:29:14 +0000

The Vertex cone is all made in Germany @ Royal-Exclusiv & uses Red Dragon pump.
They are not made in china. I confirmed this with Klaus before I preordered mine.
Vertex has paid for the Molds & owns the right to the skimmer, they are manufactured all by RE in Germany.

By: Gearhead

Gearhead — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:44:12 +0000

For “hands on” hobbiests and an understanding significant other, other skimmer brands will suit their needs and they can spend the difference on other vices .

IMHO/E, doing this for a living fulltime, BK skimmers have proven to be reliable, efficient and dead silent, especially when the system is in an area where noise is a factor. For it’s physical size, performance, power consumption, build quality and noise emission, it’s a tough product to beat.

Vertex, well, let’s just say I hope that Proline/RE keep a close eye on the QC/QA manufacturing/assembly process…cough…China.

For the record I am of Chinese ethnicity and can sympathize with those “burned” on Chinese/Taiwanese products in this hobby/industry.

By: jim walter

jim walter — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:30:57 +0000

No doubt Bubble King is a good product but who buys this stuff? At 2k plus at a pop for the skimmers just seems over the top to me. Does this stuff run cheaper in Europe where it comes from?