The origins of the company are very old and bound up with the personality of a native guild cutler from Gembloux (Belgium) named Dieudonné SIMAL.

Born in 1852, Dieudonné SIMAL went to settle in Paris in 1879, where he acquired a business close to the Faculty of Medicine.

This advantageous position and his craftsmanship rapidly gained him an important clientele of French surgeons and enabled him to set up a workshop for the manufacture of surgical instruments in Gembloux, producing exclusively for France.

After the First World War, the expansion of business led to the need to seek new investors to rationalize the widely dispersed production.

Thus was born the Manufacture Belge de Gembloux, incorporated in 1923.


In addition to its range of stainless steel surgical instruments, Simal also produces a wide range of instruments in titanium. The Belgian company occupies a leading position in this niche.

The experience and fame acquired by the company all over the years as a manufacturer of surgical instruments, resulted in the creation of SIMAL S.A. in 1993.

In 2001, the company SIMAL has been completely destroyed by fire.

Willing to restart the production of titanium instruments, Olivier Rouvez, former General Manager of SIMAL, creates his own new company, employing former collaborators of SIMAL.

SIBEL (Surgical Instruments Belgium S.A.) has been incorporated in 2002.

Each SIBEL instrument is handcrafted by skilled artisans using the world's finest titanium alloy and stainless steel to ensure strength, durability and reliability.