Teknor Apex
Americas
Pawtucket
,
United States
Established
FOUNDED
1924
HEADCOUNT
1001-5000
FUNDING
Privately held
Keywords:
bioplastics, fermentation
BUSINESS
Teknor Apex is a Pawtucket, Rhode Island-headquartered privately held US custom polymer compounder. The dominant recent strategic move is the acquisition of Danimer Scientific for USD 19 million in 2025; Danimer was previously a public bioplastics company that filed for bankruptcy.
BIOTECH INVOLVEMENT
Industrial biotech entered Teknor Apex's portfolio principally through the Danimer acquisition. The acquired assets include the Winchester, Kentucky PHA fermentation plant, described as the world's first commercial-scale PHA fermentation facility with approximately 55 million pounds per year of nameplate Nodax mcl-PHA capacity (built from canola oil and other plant oil feedstocks), the Bainbridge, Georgia campus housing PLA reactive extrusion (approximately 25 million pounds per year), an R&D center, and a PHA pilot plant
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
fermentation (PHAs via Danimer); biopolymer compounding
PRIMARY PRODUCTS
BioVinyl (bio-based PVC); PHA bioplastics; sustainable polymer compounds