With over 60 years of experience in the Defense and Aerospace sectors, Avibras Indústria Aeroespacial, a Brazilian company specializing in technology and innovation, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi company SCOPA Defense on Monday, July 31st, during the Brazil-Saudi Arabia Investment Forum held at the headquarters of the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp) in São Paulo.

The partnership aims to develop and manufacture advanced Defense equipment, bringing important capabilities, creating new jobs, and ensuring the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, especially in the Defense sector.

According to Avibras President João Brasil Carvalho Leite, the cooperation adds even more value to Avibras' business, reinforcing the longstanding partnership between the company and Saudi Arabia.

One of SCOPA's objectives is to contribute to the defense sector by identifying ways to invest in the private sector and create employment opportunities for Saudi nationals. To this end, the company believes that establishing private defense industries will stimulate other sectors such as industrial equipment, communications, and information technology.

SCOPA aims to establish partnerships with world-leading companies to provide advanced defense solutions, with a strong emphasis on local manufacturing.

   

 About Avibras

Avibras is a Brazilian technology and innovation company with unique industrial capacity and recognized worldwide for the excellence and quality of its products, systems and engineering solutions in the areas of Aeronautics, Space, Electronics, Vehicles and Defense.

 With more than 60 years of experience and certified as a Strategic Defence Company (EED), Avibras has consolidated its position as one of the world's leading companies in the Defense and Aerospace segment, with the development and manufacture of special vehicles for military purposes, becoming a reference in Multiple Rocket Launch System (MRLS), ballistic and guided rockets, missiles and pioneering participation in space research programs.

Known as a company that has the “Skills to build Skills”, Avibras is a System House, offering technological solutions to meet any need of its customers, showing real diversification and spin-off opportunities in Defence, Space and Complex Systems Integration.

Based in São José dos Campos, in Vale do Paraíba, the company is a pioneer in in-house, innovative and independent technology and operates in large facilities in Jacareí and Lorena. Its workforce is composed of highly qualified engineers, researchers and technicians capable of providing solutions for the most varied segments.

 

About SCOPA Defense

Established as the Kingdom's preeminent defense company, SCOPA's objective is to contribute effectively to the ambitious Vision 2030 program by creating organic military industries.

By providing innovative defense systems and services that meet the needs and requirements of the Saudi Armed Forces, SCOPA will expand and enhance the Kingdom's defense capabilities and ecosystem, as well as access global defense and security markets.

SCOPA was founded by Mohammad bin Abdulaziz Alajlan, the Vice Chairman of Ajlan & Bros Group, founded in 1979, which holds stakes in more than 75 companies and employs around 15,000 employees in 25 countries, being an active conglomerate in many strategic sectors.