COMANEX History

COMEX was created in 1962 and soon became the uncontested world leader in industrial Deep Diving development.

In the early Seventies, as a consequence of its very strong expansion, COMEX was organized as a group of companies.

COMEX INDUSTRIES was in charge of the development, design and manufacturing of deep diving equipment:
• Diving Systems
• Manned Submersibles
• Hyperbaric centres

By the end of the Seventies, taking advantage of the experience and feed-back of its sister company COMEX SERVICES worldwide offshore diving activities, COMEX INDUSTRIES became a performing company with innovative design and manufacturing organisation and means enabling to reach the top.

In 1978, COMEX INDUSTRIES After Sales Department was created in order to take in charge:
Instructions and maintenance manual writing, guaranty management, spare parts supply and on site servicing and maintenance workforce.

In 1983, the activities of COMEX INDUSTRIES were moved to ACB (Atelier et Chantiers de Bretagne), an ALSTHOM Group company, where the team went on promoting and manufacturing new diving systems using the technology developed by COMEX, as well as servicing and maintaining existing systems worldwide.

In 1993, the demand for new diving systems vanished. COMANEX was created by the After Sales Management team to keep on providing maintenance of COMEX design diving systems sold and operated worldwide. Since then, COMANEX has created its own range of products, encompassing more than 30 years of experience and fit to satisfy the needs of renewal and up-dating of the diving equipment still in operation.

With the benefit of COMEX INDUSTRIES technical archives, COMANEX supplies its Clients with genuine original parts or up-dated components. COMANEX modernizes the technical solutions and create innovative solutions using its own means or those of the COMEX Group.

COMEX Track Record

• 100 Saturation and Diving Systems designed and built by COMEX:
  - 40 systems installed on external client’s vessels
  - 60 systems for COMEX own use between 1961 and 1992

• 23 Submarines and Observation Bells

• 8 Onshore Hyperbaric Centres for Deep Diving and Simulation

• 83 Hyperbaric Hospitals and Therapeutic Chambers