Financial Tribune - Iran’s major automaker SAIPA is strengthening cooperation with the University of Science and Technology to upgrade its products with the state-of-the-art technology.

During a Saturday visit to the production lines of SAIPA, the company’s CEO Javad Soleimani and Mohammad Hossein Shojaeifard, the dean of the university’s research faculty, signed a deal on expansion of collaborations, Asb-e Bokhar auto news website reported.

The deal calls for establishing a specialized taskforce to design joint projects, absorb university graduates in the industrial unit as technical and scientific advisors, conduct research using university facilities and strengthen the role of academic center in SAIPA’s new projects.