LifeStraw Peak Series Personal Water Filter Straw

LifeStraw was originally developed by the Swiss-based humanitarian company Vestergaard Frandsen (now Vestergaard) alongside Danish entrepreneur Torben Vestergaard Frandsen and partner Carter Center in the late 1990s and 2000s, originally created as a disease-preventing pipe filter to eradicate Guinea worm disease before evolving into the personal LifeStraw filter launched in 2005.

Today, LifeStraw operates as a certified B Corporation and public-benefit corporation headquartered in the United States (LifeStraw LLC), while remaining closely tied to parent organization Vestergaard S.A., based in Switzerland. Its products are widely sold globally for outdoor recreation, emergency preparedness, and humanitarian missions.

Manufacturing of the advanced membrane microfilters and straw housings takes place predominantly in South Korea and other specialized manufacturing facilities across Asia, following strict international quality control and humanitarian safety standards.