Teknor Apex, a privately held firm, was founded in 1924 and is one of the world's leading custom compounders of plastics. The company began producing vinyl garden hoses in the 1950's and today is the largest hose manufacturer in the United States. Teknor Apex uses complementary technologies to serve common markets and produces a wide variety of custom compounds including: flexible and rigid vinyl, thermoplastic elastomers, nylon, specialty compounds, color master batches, specialty chemicals and bio plastics.