Founded in 1957, Shijiazhuang Iron & Steel Company (Shigang) is a landmark enterprise in the special steel sector of HBIS Group. Its leading products include bearing steel, gear steel, spring steel, alloy structural steel, quality carbon structural steel, free-cutting non-quenched and tempered steel special bars, hard wire steel, and special welding steel. These products are widely used in automotive, construction machinery, railway, petroleum and mining, shipbuilding and offshore engineering industries. Multiple products have won the national "Gold Cup Award" for physical quality and "Special Quality Award". Over one hundred products have replaced imported alternatives. The company has consecutively won the "Hebei Provincial Government Quality Award" and was recognized as a "Hebei Provincial Manufacturing Single Champion Enterprise" in 2020.
Shigang began exploring new models for urban steel mill transformation and upgrading in the 1980s, and shifted from ordinary steel to special steel in the mid-1990s. It was the first in China to innovatively adopt the converter high-efficiency process for special steel production, insisting on quality improvement and structural adjustment, continuously developing core special steel technologies to achieve high-quality development. On December 27, 2018, the Shigang New District construction project was launched as a key project of Hebei Province. On October 29, 2020, it was completed and put into operation, becoming the first all-scrap short-process green low-carbon special steel enterprise in China.
Shigang New District integrates the world's most advanced process technologies and equipment, featuring the internationally most energy-saving, environmentally friendly, and efficient 130-ton twin-shaft scrap preheating DC electric arc furnace, China's first and world's largest rectangular cross-section vertical continuous caster, Primetals (USA Morgan) 7th-generation high-speed wire rod production line, and full-process high-precision special steel bar bright finishing line, among other industry-leading facilities. With an annual production capacity of 2 million tons of steel and 1.92 million tons of finished products, the product performance indicators have been substantially improved, with purity, homogeneity, and dimensional precision reaching world-advanced levels.
Shigang New District adopts the all-scrap electric arc furnace smelting short-process technology and advanced treatment technologies, reducing pollutants by over 75%, cutting carbon emissions by 52%, and lowering comprehensive energy consumption by 52.3%. It utilizes all reclaimed municipal water from the mining area without using groundwater, achieves 100% recycling of industrial wastewater with zero discharge, and recovers waste heat for power generation and residential heating, realizing integration of production and urban living. In 2021, Shigang New District was recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as a "Green Short-Process Special Steel Intelligent Manufacturing Demonstration Factory."
