Humeca was established in 1981 and initially served as a mechanical engineering firm. This quickly changed when Humeca was approached by medical staff of a burn center in the Netherlands. The medical experts had been pondering on reviving a skin grafting technique long lost. The technique in question was the Meek-Wall technique, originally developed by dr. Meek in 1954 with the purpose of using as little donor skin as possible to cover an as large as possible burn wound. Back then, the technique involved many manual steps in order to cut skin in equally sized islands, individually glue them onto one gauze and then transplant them onto the wound. Despite positive results, the Meek-Wall technique was shelved when mesh grafting, a more convenient method of skin grafting at the time, was on the rise in 1964.

Humeca did its homework and started development of a machine which could simplify many steps of the Meek-Wall technique. The year 1993 marked the release of the modified MEEK technique. Not only was a machine designed to precisely cut skin grafts into identical individual skin islands but were gauzes pre-folded to fully control the distance between those skin islands. This technique enables us to precisely determine the expansion ratio and results in a uniform distribution of the skin islands on the wound bed. After entering the field of burns, other products followed, such as cordless electric dermatomes and disposable blades in 2002 as well as meshers and disposable V-carriers in 2007.

The focus and ambition to help every burn victim worldwide is important to be the leading burn specialist in the world.