ESG Values Lead the Way, Special Steel Takes on Its Responsibility—Aosen Special Steel Honored with a AAA Rating on China’s ESG Rating List for Steel Enterprises
Release date:
2025-12-22 13:02
On December 20, the results of the “2024-2025 China Steel Enterprise ESG Rating,” spearheaded by the Research Center for Economic Development of the Metallurgical Industry and technically supported by Shanghai SteelLink E-Commerce Co., Ltd., were officially released, announcing the list of top-performing companies rated AAA and AA. Aosen Special Steel was successfully awarded an AAA rating thanks to its outstanding performance in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors.
The ESG rating indicator system for steel enterprises is primarily structured around three major dimensions: environment, society, and governance. It focuses on the industry’s core issues and aims to comprehensively assess steel enterprises’ performance in low-carbon transformation, safe operations, and sustainable governance. This system serves as a crucial benchmark for measuring their capacity for sustainable development.
This AAA rating signifies that Aosen Special Steel has reached an industry-leading level in the field of sustainable development. For customers, this rating serves as an authoritative endorsement of the green attributes of Aosen Special Steel’s products and the company’s strong corporate reputation, providing downstream partners with reliable support for green supply chains and helping them achieve their sustainability goals. For society, by establishing an eco-friendly management system that covers the entire process of production and operations, Aosen Special Steel is driving industrial synergy and upgrading through energy-efficiency optimization practices. This approach paves the way for traditional manufacturing industries to achieve a deep integration of economic benefits and environmental responsibility, setting a high-quality benchmark for sustainable development in the industrial sector.
In the future, Aosen Steel will closely align with the direction of the nation’s 15th Five-Year Plan, using sustainable development to guide its strategic transformation. We will continue to deepen our green and low-carbon development path, focusing on specialization, greening, and intelligentization. Through technological innovation and process upgrades, we will comprehensively enhance our core competitiveness. At the same time, the company will continuously improve its ESG governance system, actively fulfill its corporate social responsibilities, and strive to become a benchmark enterprise for high-quality development in the new era, making solid contributions to the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
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In recent years, Aosen Steel has elevated its digital and intelligent transformation to the core strategic priority of enterprise development, fully promoting the deep integration of digital technologies with physical manufacturing. Guided by the advancement of smart factory construction, the company has systematically established new digital infrastructure—including an industrial internet platform and a dedicated 5G network—and, building on this foundation, has vigorously promoted the comprehensive implementation and deepened expansion of digital technologies in key areas such as production, logistics, energy, and environmental protection. A series of digital and intelligent application scenarios covering the entire production and business chain have now translated into tangible improvements in efficiency and breakthroughs in capabilities. Previously, the company has already been recognized with numerous honors, including “Double AAA-level” for smart factories, integration of informatization and industrialization, and digital transformation; DCMM robust level; and CMMM integrated level. This latest award further solidifies its leading position in digitalization within the industry.
In recent years, Aosen Steel has actively implemented a “talent-driven enterprise” strategy and continuously deepened its industry-academia-research cooperation with high-quality institutions such as Hebei University of Industrial Technology. The company has cumulatively obtained 18 invention patents and 134 utility model patents, and holds qualifications for research platforms including a postdoctoral research workstation, steadily strengthening its technological innovation capabilities.
The deepening of this cooperative relationship reflects the shared commitment of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to collaborate synergistically and jointly elevate the level of foundational materials for high-end equipment in China. Aosen Special Steel looks forward to continuously absorbing cutting-edge market demands through close collaboration with industry-leading customers such as the Wafangdian Bearing Group, thereby driving upgrades in R&D and manufacturing, creating greater value for our customers, and providing solid material support for China’s high-end equipment manufacturing sector to foster independent innovation and high-quality development.
Looking ahead, Aosen Steel will closely align with the requirements of the 15th Five-Year Plan for high-end, intelligent, and green development in the manufacturing sector. We will continue to advance key initiatives such as optimizing our energy systems, tracking and managing carbon data, and building smart dispatching platforms. Together with our partners across the industrial chain, we will jointly create a green, low-carbon, and highly collaborative steel industry ecosystem, injecting Aosen’s strength into driving high-quality development of the industry.
This visit and exchange further strengthened the strategic partnership between Aosen Special Steel and Fanruan Software, and clearly outlined the direction for deeper cooperation between the two parties in the future fields of manufacturing digitalization and intelligentization. Looking ahead, Aosen Special Steel will continue to remain firmly rooted in physical manufacturing, driven by innovation, and actively collaborate with outstanding partners. We are committed to deeply integrating digital technologies into every link of our enterprise’s production and operations value chain, steadily advancing toward high-quality development goals characterized by high-end sophistication, intelligence, and sustainability, and wholeheartedly setting a new benchmark for intelligent manufacturing in the industry.
