Empowering enterprise innovation with the scientific research strength of universities and building a new highland for technological development.
On the momentous occasion of October 1st, FOTIMA Company and Satbayev University, a top technical university in Kazakhstan, jointly announced the official inauguration of the FOTIMA Joint Research Laboratory. This strategic cooperation initiative marks a crucial step for FOTIMA in deepening its technological R&D system and expanding international scientific research cooperation, laying a solid foundation for the two parties to build an innovative ecosystem of industry-university-research integration.
As the oldest and most prestigious technical university in Kazakhstan, Satbayev University ranks 331st in the 2025 QS World University Rankings. Its engineering majors such as Mining and Petroleum Engineering are renowned worldwide, and the Oil and Gas Engineering major has been listed among the top 100 internationally. The university's profound scientific research strength and talent reserve accumulated in fields such as materials science, new energy technology, and information technology are highly aligned with FOTIMA's technical needs in relevant industrial sectors. At the inauguration ceremony, a representative from Satbayev University stated that the establishment of the laboratory is a model of precise docking between university scientific research resources and enterprise industrial demands. In the future, relying on the university's interdisciplinary scientific research team, it will provide cutting-edge theoretical support and technical research support for cooperative projects.
As an innovative enterprise deeply rooted in the industry, FOTIMA has always driven development through technological breakthroughs, and the establishment of this joint laboratory is an important move for the company to strengthen its scientific research layout. Ms. Lu Yizhen, the person in charge of the company, emphasized in her speech at the ceremony: "Satbayev University's authoritative status and scientific research achievements in the field of science and engineering have provided valuable local Central Asian platform support for FOTIMA's technological upgrading. We look forward to leveraging this cooperation platform to transform the university's advantages in basic research into the core competitiveness of the enterprise, while cultivating compound talents with both academic depth and industrial perspective for the industry."
It is understood that the joint laboratory will focus on three core directions: first, conduct targeted research on key technical bottlenecks in the industry, and develop innovative technical solutions suitable for industrial applications by combining Satbayev University's scientific research advantages in materials science and engineering; second, build a full-chain incubation platform of "basic research - pilot verification - achievement transformation" to accelerate the transfer of scientific research achievements from the laboratory to the production line; third, carry out joint talent training programs, and transport professional and technical talents for both parties through the model of "project practice + academic guidance". The laboratory adopts a professor group system, with R&D teams jointly established by core technical backbones from both the university and the enterprise to ensure that the research directions are closely connected with industrial needs.
This university-enterprise cooperation is an important practice of FOTIMA's concept of "driving development through technological innovation" and a vivid case of Satbayev University promoting the industrialization of scientific research achievements. In the future, the two parties will take the joint laboratory as the carrier to establish a normalized communication mechanism and achievement sharing mechanism, which will not only inject sustained momentum into FOTIMA's product innovation and technological upgrading, but also provide strong support for the high-quality development of the regional industry. Taking this opportunity, FOTIMA will continue to expand its international scientific research cooperation network and serve global customers with more cutting-edge technological achievements.
