HBIS Group Shisteel Company is a national high-tech enterprise, a national green factory, a national digital and intelligent green short-process special steel leading enterprise, a national green short-process special steel intelligent manufacturing pilot demonstration factory, a provincial manufacturing single champion enterprise, a provincial technology leading enterprise, a provincial technology innovation demonstration enterprise, a provincial innovative enterprise, and a provincial post-doctoral innovation practice base. It has won the "Hebei Provincial Government Quality Award" for two consecutive years and has been named "Hebei Province Quality and Efficiency Enterprise" and "Hebei Province Famous Brand" for 10 consecutive years. The company has established a national physical and chemical testing center and a high-end product testing laboratory, equipped with nearly 200 sets of research, testing, and analysis equipment. It possesses one provincial enterprise technology center, one provincial key laboratory, and other R&D platforms.
The company's new district is equipped with energy-saving, environmentally friendly, and efficient 130t twin-shaft scrap preheating DC electric arc furnaces, three-car five-position RH (mechanical vacuum pump), the world's largest rectangular cross-section continuous casting machine, 500++ fifth-generation KOCKS three-roll sizing mill, high-speed zone Morgan seventh-generation high-speed wire rod mill, and other process equipment. It employs technologies such as heavy reduction, large reduction, and ultra-fast cooling with online quenching of cast billets, achieving 187 technological innovations and 166 equipment innovations, with 109 sets of robots applied, laying the foundation for "building the most competitive special steel enterprise."
Leveraging the HBIS Group platform, the company has established industry-university-research collaborations with multiple universities and research institutions including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Northeastern University, Central Iron and Steel Research Institute, Yanshan University, North China University of Science and Technology, Hebei University of Science and Technology, and China Automotive Engineering Research Institute Co., Ltd., building an industry-university-research development system. It has established a four-in-one customer experience system integrating production, R&D, manufacturing, and application with product breakthroughs as the carrier, and a continuous improvement system characterized by stable enhancement and lean operation with the production site as the focus.
The company holds a total of 356 national patents and over 170 scientific and technological achievements. It has led and participated in the formulation of 24 national, industry, and group standards, including GB/T5216-2014 "Hardenability-Guaranteed Structural Steel" and GB/T18254-2016 "High-Carbon Chromium Bearing Steel". The company has undertaken 26 national and provincial scientific research projects, established collaborative R&D platforms with 18 users including SAIC, and achieved import substitution for 131 products. It has established comprehensive cooperative relationships with all 38 equipment manufacturing enterprises among the Fortune Global 500 and all 31 steel-using enterprises among the world's top 100 auto parts suppliers.