Vestergaard (company)
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Public health Technical textile Food security |
| Founded | 1957 |
| Founder | Kaj Vestergaard Frandsen |
| Headquarters | Switzerland |
Area served | World-wide |
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| Products | Mosquito nets, Pest Control |
| Brands | PermaNet, ZeroFly, Tiny Targets |
| Owner | Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen |
Number of employees | 110 |
| Website | www |
Vestergaard is a Swiss- and United States-based company that develops and manufactures insecticide-treated fabrics for public health and crop protection. Its innovations include the PermaNet product line of long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets, widely used in malaria elimination programs; ZeroFly grain storage bags, which enhance food security in low- and middle-income countries; and Tiny Targets, designed to reduce the transmission of sleeping sickness by the Tsetse fly.
Founded in 1957 as Vestergaard Frandsen, the company is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, with research and innovation led from the United States. Global manufacturing operations are based in Vietnam with local manufacturing in Nigeria through a joint venture, SNG Health. Entomological research and testing is carried out at the Vestergaard-Noguchi Vector Labs in Ghana.
The company began as a uniform maker and evolved into a social enterprise making products for humanitarian aid in the 1990s. It is also known for inventing the LifeStraw water filter (now a separate company).