Gibaud

Gibaud designs and manufactures knitted medical textiles for orthopaedics, podiatry and compression, including back, hand, knee and foot supports and the CHUT Otonom® anti-fall therapeutic shoe. The products are knitted in 2D or 3D and finished by hand, and the company states that its R&D develops them with medical research and patients.

Its customers are health professionals such as doctors, pharmacists and orthoprosthetists, who prescribe or recommend the products to patients. The company is part of Laboratoires Innothera, which also sells compression brands such as Smartleg®, Legger® and Actys®, and runs the Innothera Academy training programme for health professionals.

The website traces the company's origins to 1890, when a weaver in Saint-Étienne and a doctor began producing flannel textiles. Gibaud is headquartered in Saint-Étienne and has production workshops there and in Trévoux, both in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The company was founded in 1954 according to its registry record, and states that 37 of its products have been patented since 2001.

Product: Knitted orthopaedic and podiatry textiles, medical compression garments and the CHUT Otonom® therapeutic anti-fall shoe.