Affiliated to Benxi Steel Group Co., Ltd., Benxi Steel Plates Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Bengang Plates or the Company), located in Benxi City, Liaoning Province, is a state-owned holding listed steel company (stock code: 000761, 200761) which was established on June 27, 1997 and listed on the main board of Shenzhen Stock Exchange in the same year. The registered capital is 3.875 billion yuan. By the end of 2021, the total assets of the company amounted to 55.147 billion yuan, the net assets accounted 23.066 billion yuan, and 17827 employees were with the company.
The company is a super large iron and steel complex integrating iron making, steel making and steel rolling. It has a blast furnace with the largest volume of 4747 cubic meters in the northeast of China, the largest 2300 hot continuous rolling mill in the world, and the most advanced cold rolling production line all over the world. Its overall technical equipment of iron and steel has reached the world's advanced level. Thus, it has an annual production capacity of 10.34 million tons of iron, 12.8 million tons of crude steel, 15.95 million tons of hot rolled steel, 6.17 million tons of cold rolled steel and 1.4 million tons of special steel. It also enjoys the production capacity and vehicle supply capacity of cold-rolled sheet with the widest and highest strength and galvanized sheet for automobiles with the highest strength. The company's products have been widely used in automobile, household appliances, petroleum, chemical industry, aerospace, machinery manufacturing, energy transportation, building decoration, metal products and other fields, and have been exporting to more than 80 countries and regions, such as the United States, the European Union, Japan, South Korea, and its total export volume has been in the forefront of the national steel industry for many consecutive years.
Recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China as a "National Technological Innovation Demonstration Enterprise", "Top 100 Enterprises in Brand Competitiveness of Chinese Industrial Enterprises" and "the Belt and Road Initiative• International Cooperation Model Enterprise"，the company has formed a national technology center and testing center, a national academician expert workstation, a postdoctoral research workstation, a national and local joint engineering laboratory for advanced automotive steel development and application technology and other research and development platforms, and also has established professional research institutions，such as automobile plates, high strength steel, silicon steel, which ranks the leading role domestically in the research and development of automobile plates, home appliance plates, oil pipeline steel, container steel and other products. Furthermore, it firstly produced PHS2000 cold-rolled highest strength hot formed steel and CF-PHS1500 hot-rolled oxidation resistant coating free hot formed steel in the world; also, it has achieved the trial production and supply of 0.7mm * 2050 mm high and deep drawing grade O5 plates for Jiangling Automobile, and has become the first automobile plates supplier in the world to simultaneously meet the requirements of thin, wide, deep drawing and high surface quality; hence, the company has successfully produced TRIP780 electro-galvanized trial products and passed the certification of DPCA, making it become the first domestic manufacturer capable of supplying TRIP800 electro-galvanized products.
Thus, the company has been strictly following the world's highest quality and safety standards, and has passed ISO9001 (Quality Management System), ISO14001 (Environmental Management System), ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System), ISO50001 (Energy Management System) and IATF 16949 (Automobile Quality Management System) certification. Its products have been awarded "China Famous Brand", "Golden Cup Award" for physical quality of metallurgical products, "Science and Technology Progress Award", "Excellent New Product Award" and "Liaoning Famous Brand Product" for many times. In 2019, it won the gold medal of "Governor Quality Award" of Liaoning Province.
During the "Thirteenth Five Year Plan" period, the company has continuously improved the level of technological equipment in its main steel industry, laying a solid foundation for the improvement of production and quality, and forming an industrial development pattern with iron and steel metallurgy as its main industry, trade logistics, engineering construction, equipment manufacturing, and resource and environmental protection surrounding the core. Besides，during the "Fourteenth Five Year Plan" period, the company adheres by the dual drive of "reform & innovation", and takes market-oriented reform as the leading pattern, hence, deeply transforms the operating mechanism, and orderly promotes the mixed ownership reform; therefore, the company will strengthen the layout of basic, cutting-edge, and strategic science and technology projects, and strengthen the strategic support of science and technology. Furthermore, it has been promoting digital and intelligent upgrading, and facilitating the effective operation of the "consistent" technology management system, as well as improving the management and control level. Thus, relying on ultra-low emission projects such as new scrap preheating and efficient ecological electric furnace technology, the company has been adhering to low-carbon and green development and planning a path of "carbon emissions peak, carbon neutralization", in order to build a green factory.
Facing up to the future, Bengang Plates will follow and implement the requirements of "Two Consistences”(herein referred to as adhering to the Party's leadership over state-owned enterprises is a major political principle that must be followed consistently; The establishment of a modern enterprise system is the direction of the reform of state-owned enterprises, which must be carried out consistently.)instructed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and will firmly grasp the strategic opportunities of global economic transformation and development, as well as fully implement the concept of high-quality development and increase R & D and investment in ultra-low emissions, scientific and technological innovation along with intelligent manufacturing. Hence, the company will improve efficiency through digital intelligence transformation, innovate R & D to adjust structure, green upgrade to create a brand, and strive to build a high-quality plates base leading by automobile plates with international competitiveness. In this way, the company will unswervingly lead the way of serving and building our country by the strength of steel.