Group Profile
HBIS Group Co., Ltd. (referred to as HBIS) pursues high-end, intelligent, green, integrated and international advancement. HBIS vertically extends the steel industry chain toward high-end manufacturing and horizontally promotes the specialized integration of homogeneous businesses to accelerate the in-depth transformation from steel to materials and from manufacturing to services as well as to build a high-tech, high-efficiency, high-value and high-quality modern industrial matrix. HBIS has grown into a pioneer in the field of green, low-carbon and high-end steel materials and established itself as a multinational industrial group boasting global brand influence alongside the coordinated development of the steel, ecological and emerging industries. HBIS has secured a spot on the Fortune Global 500 for 18 consecutive years.
Leveraging its world-class technology, state-of-the-art equipment and abundant talent strengths, HBIS endeavors to build production bases for high-end automotive sheets, premium medium & heavy plates, high-grade special steel and innovative vanadium-titanium materials. Through this layout, HBIS delivers technical solutions for green, low-carbon steel and vanadium-titanium materials application to customers. At present, HBIS has become a leading Chinese producer of automotive steel, home appliance steel, marine engineering steel and construction & bridge steel, and has also been granted the top grade of “Extremely Strong Competitiveness” in the comprehensive competitiveness evaluation of the steel sector.
Relying on its complete steel industry chain, HBIS has continuously promoted the consolidation of homogeneous businesses and integration of professional divisions to successively nurture ecological sectors and emerging industrial clusters, including financial services, trade logistics, digital intelligence, equipment manufacturing, green and low-carbon development, energy conservation & environmental protection, as well as special gases. All of these have turned into vital new growth drivers for the Group.
Taking market demands as its guide, HBIS prioritizes new materials, new energy, new processes, green and low-carbon transition and intelligent manufacturing to advance an in-depth integration of industry, academia and research spearheaded by enterprises and to build an operationally smooth “3+1” R&D framework covering the Group-level R&D platform, subsidiaries’ technology centers, plants’ R&D units and global technology R&D platforms, leveraging technological upgrading to fuel high-quality development.
At present, HBIS boasts 4 national-level enterprise technology centers, 9 provincial-level enterprise technology centers, 7 CNAS-certified physical and chemical testing laboratories, 3 provincial-level industrial research institutes, 7 provincial-level key laboratories, 16 provincial-level technological innovation centers, 6 provincial-level engineering research centers, 3 provincial-level manufacturing innovation centers, 4 postdoctoral research workstations, and 1 academician workstation, 40 high-tech subsidiaries and 1 subsidiary certified as a national key “Little Giant” Enterprise of Specialized, Refined, Unique and Innovative.
HBIS has always adhered to the green development philosophy of “manufacturing green steel for human civilization” and remained committed to the Dual Carbon Goals. As the first Chinese enterprise to issue a technological roadmap for low-carbon development, HBIS has rolled out six technical routes and constructed two management platforms aimed at carbon neutrality by 2050. It keeps spearheading the low-carbon and green transformation of the industry and delivers the HBIS solution for realizing the national goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.
Forge ahead in the new era and embrace the new journey. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, HBIS is striving to open a new chapter of high-quality development and make its contributions to advancing Chinese path to modernization.