Swisspiranha Gmbh

Beat Wietlisbach had the idea for SwissPiranha on a tent tour with his family. He noticed that metal tent pegs deformed easily or got damaged – particularly if they hit a rock. Furthermore, they became sharped-edged and endangered his equipment. On top of that, Beat missed more safety: No matter how well those metal pegs were pushed or driven into a surface; they always stacked out and turned to extremely dangerous tripping traps – both for barefoot people and for playing children. As an engineer and inventor, it was obvious to him that pegs made from high-performance plastic will perform much better. In addition, they may be really friendly for the environment as aluminium consumes up to 13 times more energy in production and processing. So the RT150 made of high-performance plastic PiranhaNT was born: Super safe, wonderfully light and with a much higher pull-out force than standard tent pegs of the same length. Quickly the range of SwissPiranha pegs spreads: with the RT220 for bigger tents or tipis, the very light RT90 for smaller tents or tarps, and at least to complete the range of lightweight tent pegs for summer use, the middle-sized and quite lightweight RT120. As a Swiss by nature Beat loves to be out in mountains – even in wintertime. Consequently he engineered a very lightweight anchor for his snow adventures. The small, lightweight and versatile SwissPiranha Snow and Sand Anchors convinced the jury and were honoured with the Outdoor Industry Award in 2015!