Abu Dhabi, May 4, 2026 — Sindan, an AI-driven advanced manufacturing company based in Abu Dhabi, and LEAP 71, a Computational Engineering company headquartered in Dubai, today announced a strategic partnership at the Make it in the Emirates trade show. The alliance aims to industrialize a new paradigm in aerospace development: systems designed entirely by computational models and produced directly within an integrated digital manufacturing environment.
By combining LEAP 71’s Noyron, a Large Computational Engineering Model, with Sindan’s AI-powered manufacturing infrastructure, the partnership closes the loop from autonomous engineering to advanced production. Under the collaboration agreement, the companies will jointly develop and manufacture air-breathing jet engines and space propulsion systems, positioning the UAE as a center for next-generation aerospace development.
Heyuan Huang, Managing Director & CEO of Sindan, said:
“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 new paradigm through the rapid development and hot-fire testing of dozens of liquid-propellant rocket engines across multiple architectures. Generated autonomously by Noyron, these systems are brought to test 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.
Josefine Lissner, CEO of LEAP 71, said:
“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.”
The partnership establishes a new paradigm for how complex machines are developed and produced. Computational engineering and AI-driven manufacturing replace iterative design cycles and fragmented production pipelines with a continuous, integrated path from concept to hardware. The UAE provides the foundation for this transformation through its focus on advanced industry and technology.
About Sindan
Sindan is an Abu Dhabi–based AI-driven advanced manufacturing company redefining production in the 21st century. At the core of Sindan’s approach is an integrated digital production environment that combines advanced additive manufacturing, robotics, and industrial AI into a unified, end-to-end manufacturing platform.
Sindan operates one of the region’s most advanced additive manufacturing platforms and delivers localized manufacturing solutions across aerospace, energy, mobility, healthcare, and advanced industrial sectors. Through its proprietary AI layer, the company connects design, production, and operational intelligence into a continuous, adaptive production environment.
Sindan works closely with government entities, industrial partners, and academic institutions to strengthen sovereign manufacturing capabilities in the UAE. Its platform integrates machine vision, simulation, and predictive intelligence to enable more intelligent and scalable manufacturing.
By combining AI-driven design integration with advanced production infrastructure, Sindan aims to establish a new industrial model, where complex products can be developed and manufactured locally, efficiently, and at scale.
For more information, visit Sindan.ae.
About LEAP 71
LEAP 71 was founded on the vision that radically accelerating real-world engineering is essential to shaping the future of humankind. Strategically based in Dubai, UAE, the company works with customers around the globe to design advanced machinery in fields such as aerospace, electric mobility, robotics, and thermal systems.
A pioneer in the emerging field of Computational Engineering, LEAP 71 designs physical objects autonomously, without human intervention. At its core is Noyron, a Large Computational Engineering Model that encodes logic, physics, production methodologies, and real-world feedback into a coherent, deterministic system. It has been called “the first AI that builds machines.”
Noyron generates functional designs in seconds or minutes, optimized for modern manufacturing technologies such as industrial 3D printing.
A key focus for the company is enabling access to space. LEAP 71 is developing a spectrum of reference designs for space propulsion systems that serve as the DNA for customer-specific engines. Frequent physical testing and validation are used to continuously enrich Noyron’s models.
LEAP 71 was founded in 2023 by aerospace engineer Josefine Lissner and serial entrepreneur Lin Kayser.
Visit the LEAP 71 website for more information.
