Roughly seven out of every ten garden hose export shipments worldwide leave a Chinese factory, and most big-box and as-seen-on-TV hose brands you’ll find at a hardware store are made there. The US is the world’s second-largest hose exporter, though, so domestic manufacturing is far from dead. We did the research to find the American companies still making hoses here, including a handful of brands where only part of the lineup actually qualifies. Check out our complete list and research considerations below.
Complete List of Hose Manufacturers Made in the USA
Water Right builds its entire hose lineup, from standard garden hoses to boat, RV, soaker, and coil hoses, at its facility in McMinnville, Oregon. What sets them apart is the material: instead of PVC or rubber, their hoses use 100% prime, drinking-water-safe polyurethane, sized from 3/8 inch up to 3/4 inch diameter. Founded in 2008 by Jeff Thomas and Katrina Williams after research into chemical safety concerns with conventional hoses, the company built its whole identity around a toxin-free product made in the Willamette Valley.
Armstrong Hose is a family-owned operation in Hamilton, New Jersey, with more than 60 years in the business. They extrude their own thermoplastic hose in-house, sourcing materials from American chemical suppliers including DuPont and Goodrich Chemical, then fit each one with brass couplings. Every hose is made to order in the customer’s choice of color and length, rated to withstand burst pressures over 1,000 PSI and resist kinking in sub-freezing temperatures. It’s backed by a lifetime warranty and sold mostly through their own site rather than big retail chains.
Dramm has been making professional watering equipment in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, since 1941, and their ColorStorm line of garden hoses is molded from EPDM rubber that resists cracking and separating over time. The fittings are machined brass with a nickel-plated finish and attached the same way as high-pressure hydraulic hose fittings, which gives the joint a 500-plus PSI burst rating. Product design, tooling, and assembly all happen at their roughly 100,000-square-foot Wisconsin facility. The company started when John Dramm, a florist, invented a nozzle to water greenhouse crops without damaging them, and it’s now in its third generation of family ownership.
Flexon has been family-owned since 1956 and splits its manufacturing between Newark, New Jersey, and Anderson, South Carolina, covering residential, farm, marine, and RV hose lines under names like Guardian, H2Zero, Featherlite, and PureFlo. Important note: Flexon assembles its hoses domestically but sources some components globally, a hybrid approach the company says helps it manage tariffs and shipping delays. They’ve also worked recycled and recyclable materials into more recent hose construction.
Aquor, based in Bellevue, Washington, is best known for its quick-connect House Hydrant and Ground Hydrant, which use water pressure instead of a threaded connection to form a seal. Here’s the catch: those flagship hydrants are currently made at a factory in China owned by the founders’ family, though the company has stated plans to move that production to Washington. What is made domestically right now are their accessory products, including an ultralight garden hose, a hose hanger, and a coil hose. If you’re buying from Aquor specifically for the garden hose, you’re covered; if you want the hydrant itself made here, that’s not the case yet.
Swan Products, headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, calls itself the largest hose manufacturer headquartered in the United States, and it makes garden hoses, soaker hoses, rubber hoses, and RV and marine hoses at its own facilities in Waco, Texas and Sparks, Nevada. Roughly 90% of Swan’s garden hoses incorporate recycled plastic and rubber, and the company says it repurposes more than 60 million pounds of that material every year. Swan traces back to 1927 as the Swan River Tire and Rubber Company and was acquired by Jacobson Partners in 2013. The domestic manufacturing claim applies specifically to their hose products; some of the accessories they sell alongside them, like nozzles and repair fittings, aren’t covered by that claim.
Teknor Apex is a family-owned polymer manufacturer in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, with about 15 facilities worldwide, and its hose lines, including zero-G, NeverKink, NexFlex, and Apex Pro, serve everyone from homeowners to farms and construction sites. The company markets its zero-G Pro as assembled in the United States, but it hasn’t publicly detailed which of its US sites handle assembly or whether that claim extends across every Apex-branded hose. As a polymer compounder, Teknor Apex also supplies raw materials to other hose manufacturers, so if you want a specific answer for a specific hose, ask them directly which facility built it.
How to Find Hoses Made in the USA
Hoses are one of those categories where “made in the USA” can mean the whole product or just the final assembly step. Knowing the difference helps you figure out whether a brand’s claim covers the plastic and rubber inside the hose, or just where it got put together.
What Does “Made in the USA” Mean?
The Federal Trade Commission’s standard requires that “all or virtually all” of a product, from raw materials through final assembly, be made domestically. But the FTC doesn’t pre-approve these claims. Companies self-certify, which means the label can be stretched or misapplied without much friction. For the full breakdown of how the standard works and how brands get it wrong, check out our complete guide to made in USA labeling and verification.
Materials
Hose construction depends heavily on where the plastic, rubber, and metal fittings come from, which is a different question from where the hose is assembled.
PVC and Vinyl
PVC is the backbone of most standard-duty garden hoses. The US is a major global producer here: Shintech, with integrated chlor-alkali plants in Louisiana and Texas, runs the largest PVC production capacity in the world at 4.15 million tons annually, roughly 30% of global share. Westlake holds the number two spot globally with about 3.5 million tons of capacity, and OxyVinyls, Occidental Petroleum’s chemical division, is another major domestic supplier. Domestic PVC resin is genuinely abundant, which means a PVC hose has a real shot at being sourced and made entirely in the US.
Rubber
Rubber hoses are a different story. The US produced about 2.7 million metric tons of synthetic rubber in 2024, and companies here are recognized as global leaders in synthetic rubber production. But that’s synthetic rubber. Natural rubber, used in some hose formulations, doesn’t come from the US at all. Thailand alone produced 4.75 million metric tons of natural rubber in 2022, and the crop only grows in tropical regions across Southeast Asia, Africa, and parts of South America. A rubber hose made from a synthetic compound has a plausible domestic sourcing path. One relying on natural rubber does not.
Brass
Brass fittings show up on nearly every hose in our research, and brass is just copper and zinc melted together. The US mines both metals domestically but isn’t the world leader in either: US copper production was about 1 million metric tons in 2025, well behind Chile’s 5.3 million tons. Zinc mine production dropped 12% in 2025 compared to 2024, largely due to declining ore grades at the Red Dog Mine in Alaska, and the US mines zinc at just six operations across five states.
Still, companies like Wieland Chase, the largest brass rod manufacturer in the country, and Olin Brass process and supply plenty of domestic brass. US-made fittings aren’t hard to find. The raw copper and zinc feeding into them just isn’t dominated by domestic mining the way PVC resin is.
Polyurethane
A smaller number of premium hoses, including Water Right’s entire lineup, use polyurethane instead of PVC or rubber. China produces about 32% of the global polyurethane supply, more than any other country, and the industry is dominated by a handful of major players, with Huntsman and Dow among the US-based ones. Polyurethane hose material is less commonly sourced domestically than PVC, which makes a brand that’s committed to it, like Water Right, a more unusual find in this category.
Labeling
Here’s what the labeling you’ll actually encounter on a hose package means:
- “Made in the USA” — the FTC standard: all or virtually all of the product, including raw materials, has to be domestic.
- “Assembled in the USA” — the plastic, rubber, or fittings were likely sourced overseas, with final assembly done here. This is what Teknor Apex uses for its zero-G Pro line.
- “Made in America” — can legally include Canada and Mexico under USMCA. Not the same claim as made in the USA.
- “Designed in the USA” — the engineering happened here, but the manufacturing didn’t.
- American flag imagery — no regulatory meaning whatsoever. Any brand can print a flag on the packaging.
- Title 19, Chapter 4, Section 1304 — federal law requiring imported goods to carry country-of-origin labeling. This is why you’ll often see “Made in China” stamped somewhere on an overseas-produced hose even when the branding around it leans American.
When you see a hose marketed as “assembled in the USA,” treat that as its own category rather than a stand-in for fully domestic production.
Final Tips
A few things worth doing before you buy:
- Apply what you now know about labeling. If a hose says “assembled in the USA,” ask a follow-up question about where the components come from before assuming the whole thing is domestic.
- Check the brand’s official website, specifically the About page, FAQ, and individual product pages. A genuinely domestic hose brand almost always says so clearly and specifically, down to the city. If a company only says “premium materials” with no origin mentioned, treat that as a signal.
- Check the product listing on Amazon or another third-party retailer. Country-of-origin details sometimes show up there even when a brand’s own site is vague about it.
- Contact the company directly and ask specifically where the hose is assembled and where the raw plastic, rubber, or brass comes from. A domestic manufacturer will usually answer that immediately.
Hoses Not Made in the USA
Here are some well-known garden hose brands that manufacture overseas.
- Xhose — the expandable hose category, sold under names including Xhose, Pocket Hose, and FlexAbleHose, is manufactured in China by contract manufacturers
- Flexzilla — manufactured in China; the brand belongs to Legacy Manufacturing of Marion, Iowa, which markets the hoses as designed and engineered in the USA
- Bionic Steel — manufactured in China; the brand is owned by Emson, a New York-based company that doesn’t manufacture domestically
- Melnor — manufactured in China and Taiwan, with the company’s Winchester, Virginia headquarters handling distribution and administration rather than production
