LEAP 71 and Sindan partner on AI-driven aerospace production
LEAP 71, based in Dubai, UAE, has announced a strategic partnership with Sindan, based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, at the Make it in the Emirates trade show. The partnership aims to industrialise systems designed entirely by computational models and produced directly within an integrated digital manufacturing environment.
Combining LEAP 71’s Noyron, a Large Computational Engineering Model, with Sindan’s AI-powered manufacturing infrastructure, the partnership aims to integrate autonomous engineering with advanced production processes. Under the collaboration agreement, the companies will jointly develop and manufacture air-breathing jet engines and space propulsion systems. The companies state that this will position the UAE as a centre for next-generation aerospace development.
Heyuan Huang, Managing Director and CEO of Sindan, stated, “Over the past two years, Sindan has established an advanced manufacturing ecosystem that brings together Additive Manufacturing, precision machining, and digital production capabilities. With more than 40 large-scale metal Additive Manufacturing systems, 300+ polymer manufacturing systems, advanced CNC machining, and Sindan Industrial Artificial Intelligence Capability, we can move directly from digital design to serial production. Our partnership with LEAP 71 enables a fundamentally new way of building systems for the space and aviation sectors.”
LEAP 71 has demonstrated this shift through the rapid development and hot-fire testing of dozens of liquid-propellant rocket engines across multiple architectures. The company states that systems generated autonomously by Noyron are tested within weeks, including liquid methane engines exceeding two tons (20 kN) of thrust. Noyron encodes first-principles physics, engineering logic, and manufacturing constraints into a deterministic model that directly generates manufacturable systems.
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Josefine Lissner, CEO of LEAP 71, shared, “Noyron compresses development timelines from years to weeks and allows systems to be generated directly from physics and requirements. Combined with Sindan’s ‘lights-out’ production, this enables a rapid path from specification to manufactured hardware.”
