Deepening Strategic Collaboration to Jointly Usher in a New Era of Development | Lu Jiangguang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Wugang Company under HBIS Group, led a delegation on a visit to a leading domestic customer in the energy and chemical equipment manufacturing sector.
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2026-05-19
On May 18, Lu Jiangguang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Wugang Company, led a delegation to visit a leading domestic customer in the energy and chemical equipment manufacturing sector. The two sides held a symposium to discuss deepening technological collaboration and jointly expanding into high-end markets, further strengthening their strategic partnership. Long Jie, Deputy General Manager of Wugang Company, accompanied the visit, while relevant heads from the Marketing Management Department, the Production and Manufacturing Department, the Sales Department, and the Science and Technology Department attended the meeting.
During the symposium, senior management of the client extended a warm welcome to the delegation led by Lu Jiangguang, providing a detailed overview of their company’s scale of development, technological platform, product strengths, and industry positioning. They emphasized that Wugang is a core strategic partner with whom they have long enjoyed deep, trusted collaboration, and serves as the primary supplier of specialized steel plates essential for manufacturing high-end pressure vessels and large-scale equipment. Over the years, Wugang has consistently delivered products of stable, reliable quality and demonstrated outstanding technical capabilities, offering substantial support in critical project supply assurance and joint R&D on new materials, thereby providing a solid foundation for advancing the iterative upgrading of our high-end equipment and ensuring the successful implementation of key projects. At present, influenced by structural adjustments in the coal‑chemical sector and a contraction in overall market investment, the volume of cooperation between the two parties has narrowed year over year. Both sides were urged to confront these challenges head‑on, implement targeted improvements, and reestablish a robust, efficient, and stable framework for deepened collaboration.

Lu Jiangguang expressed his gratitude to the client for their longstanding trust and support of Wugang Company, while commending the client’s robust capabilities in the R&D and manufacturing of high-end equipment and their leadership in industry‑wide technological innovation. He noted that the two parties enjoy a solid foundation of cooperation, continuously engage in joint technological breakthroughs, and drive iterative upgrades of high‑end steel plates, thereby achieving mutual empowerment across the upstream and downstream segments of the industrial chain. Since the beginning of this year, Wugang has steadily advanced the intelligent upgrading and transformation of its production lines, optimizing manufacturing processes and expanding high‑end capacity to enhance its ability to produce premium steel grades, thus firmly strengthening the foundation for ensuring the supply of high‑end steel products. At the same time, the company has continued to upgrade its customer service system, refining end-to-end coordination mechanisms and comprehensively bolstering its capabilities in order tracking, quality control, and on‑time delivery, fully meeting the stringent requirements of downstream users in the high‑end equipment manufacturing sector. Looking ahead, Wugang will remain customer‑centric, adhering to the principles of “breaking four barriers” and pursuing “four extremes,” while continuing to deepen its R&D efforts in high‑end steel plates, optimizing its cost structure, and enhancing its overall market competitiveness. The company will also seize opportunities in emerging industries to unlock new avenues for collaborative growth.
This visit has effectively streamlined channels of collaboration, clarified strategic directions for cooperation, and identified priorities for future efforts. Moving forward, both parties will continue to deepen industrial-chain coordination, strengthen technological innovation and resource sharing, further consolidate their strategic partnership, and work together to drive high-quality development in the energy‑equipment sector.
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