April 14, World Steel Association(Worldsteel) announced the 2026 Steel Sustainability Champion companies in Berlin, Germany, for the extraordinary work of the 14 Champions in 2025. With its excellent performances on environment, social, management and economy, 4 years in a row, HBIS was recognized as one of the Champions of the year. HBIS Chairman Liu Jian, Worldsteel Chairman U?ur DALBELER, Worldsteel Director General Edwin Basson attended the ceremony.

HBIS strives to improve its competitiveness and focuses on economic performances with high end, intelligent and green development. The reform from steel supplier to comprehensive material supplier and from manufacturing to service will be strengthened. HBIS will also enhance from purely leading in size to leading in values. It will integrate its innovation chain and industrial chain and build its research capabilities including China & Serbia Green Steel and Belt & Road Joint Laboratory. With the concept of developing one generation, producing one generation and reserve one generation, the group will upgrade its products eventually, from raw material classes to future material classes. HBIS high strength and high corrosion resistant steel, high end household appliance decoration strip, high-carbon chromium bearing steel? have won the titles of Top 10 Steel Products of Hebei Steel Industry.

Focusing on All Domain Development, HBIS builds a digital driven new biosphere and comprehensively develops and implements an AI+ Initiative, aim to integrate AI and Digital Twins technologies to the whole processes of steel manufacturing. HBIS launches the all domain grade digital model of steel industry WeShyper 2.0, and creatively develops automatic steel making and high precision hot rolling procedure models, independently and under control. In AI+Steel domain, HBIS makes showpiece progresses, including 4 of its subsidiaries entered the list of Extraordinary Intelligent Factories of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Over the low carbon premium, HBIS strengthens its leadership in sustainability and implement its carbon peaking and neutrality goals by improving energy consumption structure, procedure structure and material technology innovations. Its green electricity - green hydrogen - Green Steel road map leads the collaborative development along the industrial chain. HBIS signs the world’s first export bill of Hydrogen made Steel, over 10,000tons. Hand in hand with upper and downstream of steel industry, HBIS builds a green low carbon and sustainable steel supply chain.

With extraordinary performances, HBIS together with Arcelor Mittal, China Steel Corporation(Taiwan), EMSteel, Gerdau S.A, Hyundai Steel, InfraBuild, JFE Steel, Jingye Group, JSW Steel, POSCO Holdings, TaTa Steel, Tenaris, Ternium win the titles of 2026 Steel Sustainability Champions.