The Comex altitude simulator recreates pressure conditions at altitude. It is a reference tool for the aeronautical industry …
Hyperbaric assistance service for tunnel boring machines
Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are machines used to excavate tunnels in different types of soil ranging from sand to granite. With a wide range of sizes, they allow the construction of road, rail or navigation tunnels. They are also used for digging galleries, sewers...
Maintenance in operational condition of hyperbaric installations
The Maintenance in Operational Condition (MCO) are the measures taken to guarantee breakdowns’ diagnosis and defective parts’ replacement, ensure conformity, modernization and treatment of the obsolescences, as well as crew training and documentation supply, within...
Supply of a Cx1800 Projectable Decompression Chamber to the Armada Argentina (Argentine Navy)
COMEX has produced a containerized decompression chamber to the Armada Argentina. It is intended to equip an Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) that will be delivered by the French Company NAGAL GROUP
A new 5-year contract signed with the French Navy
COMEX SA is pleased to have won the new public contract from the French Ministry of the Armed Forces for the MCO* recompression chambers.
(* Maintenance in operational condition of the recompression chambers of the French Navy and Army).
COMEX partner of Merré Shipyards
Located north of Nantes, Merré Shipyards are recognized as a multi-specialist in shipbuilding.With the construction of eight military ships, 26.50-metre cruisers for French Navy’s mine clearance divers, Merré shipyards have been awarded their largest order ever. DGA...
Hypoxia risk awareness
On Friday, November 16 2018, Comex Hyperbaric and Hypobaric Test Center hosted a delegation of students and instructors of EPNER (School of flight test and reception staff) for an hypoxia risk awareness session.
Hypoxic chamber : Preliminary steps to an actual man dive at the altitude of 6400m above sea level
Frédéric Swierczynski, diver of the extreme, came to prepare fora high altitude dive in the lakes of the world’s highest active volcano, el Nevado Ojos del Salado in the Andes. This preparation took place in an altitude simulator, the hypoxic chamber at Comex trial...
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY ASSIGNS COMEX TO SUPPORT THE UNDERWATER TRAINING OF ASTRONAUTS IN COLOGNE
PRESS RELEASECOMEX and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract on astronaut underwater training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne. On May 18th, 2019, the Marseille-based enterprise COMEX (Compagnie Maritime d'Expertises) and the European...
Comex maritime expertise for neutrino research
What is a neutrino ? Neutrinos are neutral elementary particles of virtually zero mass. They are produced during nuclear reactions generated by extremely violent cosmic cataclysms such as black holes, supernovae and the Big Bang. Once produced, they move at a speed...