Healthcare applications

During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the FAMHP took a number of exceptional measures to guarantee sufficient availability of surgical mask that meet the minimum quality requirements for use as medical devices. These exceptional measures will be lifted on 1 February 2021.

Launched on May 5th, the "Covid-19 approved by Centexbel" is being issued to an ever growing number of companies

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Cure & Care textiles are designed to restore the patient to health, to improve the patient’s comfort experience and to optimise and facilitate the work of healthcare providers and medical staff. This brochure illustrates some of  Centexbel's developments in the field of textiles dedicated to health

According to E. Beckung (Probability of walking in children with cerebral palsy in Europe-2008) 54% of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) can walk without aids,16% of patients will need assistive devices to walk and 30% are not able to walk at 5 years of age. This means that 46% of CP patients can possibly benefit from innovative technology like exoskeleton.

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Because ensuring optimal thermo-physiological comfort is a complex issue in clothing design, Centexbel offers a whole series of tests to assess this important aspect in the development of workwear, sportswear, corporate wear, medical wear, protective and military clothing.

smart PPE

Development of an integrated, reusable and ventilated protective suit for healtchare workers during lethal epidemic outbreaks.