CIMSA is a technology-based company that specializes in textile-based parachutes, wings and recovery systems for a broad range of challenging mission requirements including:

• Military personnel parachutes
• Skydiving,
• Deceleration and stabilization systems for a variety of air and space vehicles including weapons and space vehicles
• Aerial delivery including platform delivery systems (PLADS) and low altitude parachute extraction systems (LAPES), and
• Powered parachute vehicles using ram-air wing technology.

The company's cargo drop parachutes range from the 100 ft diameter G-11 that supports loads up to 5,000 lbs, to the 34 ft diameter G-14 for loads of up to 500 lbs.

CIMSA provides a broad range of training programs for users and maintainers of its systems. The company also has a defense and security systems business unit whose expertise includes military SATCOM-based positioning systems.

CIMSA invests heavily in research and development at both the national and international level. Its core expertise is in aerodynamic behavior of rigid and flexible systems, as well as structural and aero elastic characteristics. CIMSA has developed a proprietary graphic design and simulation tool with broad application functionality. CIMSA conducts extensive research in space applications, including integration of antennas into parachutes for space probes.

CIMSA's headquarters are located in Barcelona, Spain.

Kaycom is CIMSA's exclusive Canadian representative/distributor for all Canadian Military/Government sales. If you are interested in CIMSA's commercial products, please contact the company directly.