Hatro Electronics Attends Inauguration of Xiamen University School of Intelligent Manufacturing; Chairman Zhou Haiming Signs University-Enterprise Cooperation Agreement to Build a New Hub for Industry-Academia-Research Collaboration

• 2026-09-08

On September 6, 2026, the Inauguration Ceremony of the Xiamen University School of Intelligent Manufacturing and the Mechanical Engineering Discipline Development Symposium was grandly held at the Science and Arts Center of Xiamen University. Under the theme "Intelligent Manufacturing with Vision," the event brought together leading academic figures, industry pioneers, and government representatives to witness a milestone in the development of Xiamen University's intelligent manufacturing discipline. Hu Wenping, President of Xiamen University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, attended the ceremony and delivered a speech. Mr. Zhou Haiming, Chairman of Xiamen Hatro Electronics Co., Ltd., was invited to attend and signed a university-enterprise cooperation agreement on behalf of the enterprise at the ceremony, marking a new phase of substantive industry-academia-research collaboration between Hatro Electronics and Xiamen University in the field of intelligent manufacturing.

A Two-Way Convergence of Academia and Industry: The School of Intelligent Manufacturing Emerges as Needed

The establishment of the Xiamen University School of Intelligent Manufacturing represents a major strategic 布局 by the university in response to the national manufacturing power strategy and the urgent demands of industrial upgrading. Leveraging the profound heritage of Xiamen University's mechanical engineering discipline, the School focuses on frontier directions including high-end equipment, intelligent sensing, and precision manufacturing, and is committed to building a three-in-one innovation hub encompassing discipline development, scientific research, and industrial application for talent cultivation and technological breakthroughs.

Concurrent with the inauguration, the Mechanical Engineering Discipline Development Symposium and the Discipline Strategy Development Forum were held, along with the appointment ceremony for the Discipline Development Advisory Committee. A number of experts and scholars with deep expertise in intelligent manufacturing were appointed as committee members to provide strategic guidance for the long-term development of the School.

Hatro Electronics Joins the Partnership: Driving Original Technology Breakthroughs Through Industrial Demand

At the highly anticipated university-enterprise cooperation signing ceremony, Chairman Zhou Haiming formally signed a cooperation agreement with the Xiamen University School of Intelligent Manufacturing on behalf of Xiamen Hatro Electronics Co., Ltd. Also participating in the signing were several representative local Xiamen enterprises in the intelligent manufacturing sector, including Xiamen Nair Electronics, Xiamen Yudian Automation, and Aipu Optical Technology, forming an industrial collaboration matrix of "prestigious university + renowned enterprises."

As a national-level high-tech enterprise deeply engaged in the field of semiconductor packaging materials, Hatro Electronics has long focused on the R&D and integrated manufacturing of core products such as PS/PC conductive carrier tapes and conductive masterbatches, while continuously extending its reach into high-end precision machining equipment. The company's independently developed Five-Axis Six-Sided One-Clamping Machining Center, featuring a world-original structural architecture that achieves five-axis linkage and full six-sided machining in a single setup, has set a new industry benchmark in extreme precision and intelligent manufacturing — serving as a solid foundation for in-depth technological cooperation between the enterprise and the university.

Through this agreement, both parties will engage in comprehensive collaboration across precision manufacturing equipment R&D, semiconductor packaging material process optimization, and joint cultivation of intelligent manufacturing talents. The partnership will accelerate the translation of university basic research achievements into industrial applications, while leveraging real-world technical challenges from the enterprise to guide university research — forming a virtuous cycle of "demand sets the questions, universities solve them, and industry validates the results."

Industry Perspective: Deep Industry-Academia-Research Integration Is the Inevitable Path for High-End Manufacturing Breakthroughs

From the perspective of industry development laws, competition in intelligent manufacturing is essentially a systematic competition of the trinity: "basic research + engineering capability + industrial scenarios." Xiamen University's profound accumulation in basic disciplines such as mechanical engineering, materials science, and artificial intelligence is highly complementary to Hatro Electronics' engineering capabilities and industrial scenarios in semiconductor packaging materials and high-end equipment.

Chairman Zhou Haiming's personal leadership of the delegation to attend and sign the agreement not only demonstrates the enterprise's strategic emphasis on industry-academia-research collaboration, but also sends a clear signal: Hatro Electronics is accelerating its transformation from a "materials manufacturer" to an integrated provider of "materials + equipment + intelligent manufacturing solutions." Through deep engagement with the Xiamen University School of Intelligent Manufacturing, the enterprise will gain continuous empowerment in original technology reserves, high-end talent acquisition, and cutting-edge process validation, building a solid moat for its next phase of technological leaps and market expansion.

Looking Ahead: Empowering High-End Manufacturing Self-Reliance Through World-Original Technologies

This appearance at the inauguration of the Xiamen University School of Intelligent Manufacturing and the successful signing mark an important step in Hatro Electronics' deepening of university-enterprise collaborative innovation. Going forward, the company will take this cooperation as an opportunity to continuously increase R&D investment, rely on university research platforms and intellectual resources to accelerate the iterative upgrading and industrialization of original technologies such as the Five-Axis Six-Sided One-Clamping Machining Center, and jointly cultivate a cohort of interdisciplinary intelligent manufacturing talents who master both theory and engineering practice.

Hatro Electronics will always uphold its technological pursuit of "world originality," take high-end manufacturing technological self-reliance as its mission, and advance hand in hand with top academic institutions such as Xiamen University, contributing Hatro's wisdom and strength to the high-quality development of the intelligent manufacturing industry in Xiamen and across China.