VANGEST

Founded in 1986, VANGEST is a defense contract manufacturer based in Marinha Grande, Portugal working in air systems, unmanned systems.

VANGEST is a plastics and precision tooling company founded in 1986, offering mould making, plastic injection moulding, precision machining and composite tooling. Its core business serves medical devices, diagnostics, laboratory consumables and industrial markets, with an aerospace division that supplies high-precision machined aluminium structures, composite tooling and engineering support for aerospace and defence programmes. The company also lists tooling and parts for UAVs and drones among its defence-related work. Operations include cleanroom ISO 7 production, ISO 13485-certified medical moulding, 5-axis CNC machining and metrology. The company states it has around 350 staff across sites in Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and Singapore.