The great oil filter debate

Purolator Filters (Purolator Filters LLC) is an American manufacturer of oil and air filters, based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States. The company was founded in 1923 as Motor Improvements, Incorporated in New York City and later took on the Purolator name as a short form of their filtration process called pure oil later.
They have been wholly owned by Mann + Hummel of Germany for around 10 years. Wix was also bought by M+H a couple of years later.
They'll still make filters in NA for now, but the trend continues to be globalization of companies.