COMEX

COMEX

COMEX SAS

Marseille, France

Naval SystemsSpaceMRO & LogisticsSimulation & TrainingDual-use
Founded 1962System Integrator, MRO & ServicesSupplies Naval Forces, Defense Industry, Homeland Security & Police
Profile last updated: March 10, 2026

About

Founded in 1962, COMEX is a defense system integrator based in Marseille, France working in naval systems, space, mro & logistics +1 more.

COMEX is a Marseille-based company founded in 1962 by Henri Germain Delauze, specialising in controlled-pressure environments. It designs, manufactures, integrates, tests and maintains hyperbaric and hypobaric equipment, including recompression and decompression chambers, altitude and space simulators, and test pools. Its customers include the French Navy and other navies, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, and space agencies such as ESA and NASA, as well as civilian sectors such as hyperbaric medicine, aeronautics, offshore energy and research. The company operates a hyperbaric and hypobaric test centre, a testing laboratory and a Notified Body, and provides training in aquatic and hypoxia risk prevention. It also holds a maintenance contract for French Navy recompression chambers and has contributed to the ESPRIT module of the lunar Gateway station with Airbus.

Location

Marseille, France

Founded

1962

Company type

Limited company

Legal name

COMEX SAS

Registration

06280245900024

VAT number

FR21062802459

Focus areas

hyperbarichypobaricrecompression chambersspace simulationastronaut trainingnaval divingmaintenancetest center

Languages

ENFR

Products & capabilities

Defense domains

Naval SystemsSpaceMRO & LogisticsSimulation & Training

Supply-chain role

System IntegratorMRO & Services

What they offer

HardwareMaintenance & RepairEngineering ServicesTraining

Markets

Also sells to civilian markets

Products

Cx1800 Projectable Decompression Chamber

Decompression chamber

Projectable decompression chamber supplied to the Argentine Navy for an offshore patrol vessel.

Recompression chamber for French Navy diving support vessel

Recompression chamber

Recompression chamber delivered to SEE Merré to equip a French Navy diving support vessel.

Deployable compression chamber

Deployable hyperbaric chamber

Deployable new-generation compression chambers delivered to the Algerian General Directorate of Civil Protection.

Altitude simulator (CEH)

Hypobaric test chamber

Test facility with a flight simulator reproducing environmental conditions up to 40,000 feet, and a space simulator reproducing vacuum conditions down to 70 km.

End users

Naval ForcesDefense IndustryHomeland Security & Police

Standards, platforms & customers

Named customers

French Navy (Marine nationale)Armada ArgentinaFrench Ministry of the Armed ForcesNaval GroupMerré ShipyardsEuropean Space AgencyNASAAirbusDirection Générale de la Protection CivileAlgerian State

Credentials & affiliations

Certifications

ISO 9001:2015

ISO 13485:2016

Notified Body N3061

ISO/IEC 17025 testing laboratory accreditation

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