CERI has completed hundreds of E and EPC projects, and won 10 national-level awards, 34 provincial-level awards and 8 provincial-level science and technology awards. Among them,  the stock yard of Tangsteel built in the 1980s won the Silver Prize of China Excellent Engineering Design Award, and the stock yard of Shougang Jingtang Iron & Steel built in 2009 won the Gold Prize of China Quality Engineering Design Award, reaching the international advanced level.

CERI has successfully developed China's first pulverized coal injection plant for blast furnace, achieving 100% bituminous coal injection for the first time, and exported the technology to POSCO (Korea), Paul Wurth Group (Luxembourg) and MECON (India). In 2007, the “National Code of Coal Injection Project for Blast Furnace” edited by CERI was published.

CERI has successfully developed the Cyclone Top-Combustion Type Hot Blast Stove, and has entered the international markets such as India, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. In 2012, "the energy-saving technology of Cyclone Top-Combustion Type Hot Blast Stove with high blast temperature" with the characteristics of high blast temperature, high efficiency and long life was listed in the “Promotion Catalogue of National Key Energy-Saving Technologies”.

CERI designed the first set of manufacturing drawings of copper cooling stave in China and the first set of closed-circulation soft water cooling system in China. With the full cooling plate design, plate-stave combination design, combined cooling stave design, cross-flow tuyere and fully heat-conducting hearth structural system developed by CERI, CERI has increased the design life of blast furnace in China to more than 15 years, and has always been at the international leading level in terms of high efficiency and long life of blast furnace body.

The "pressure-equalizing gas recovery method and recovery device at blast furnace top" developed by CERI has filled the gap in this field in China, effectively solving the problems of toxic gas emissions and dust & noise pollution. It meets the increasingly strict requirements of environmental protection, and generates considerable economic benefits. In 2017, it was rated as one of the top ten technology highlights in the world steel industry.

The blast furnace slag treatment technology by bottom filtration method invented by CERI broke the monopoly of mechanical method in the field of slag treatment and rapidly occupied the market in China. In recent years, CERI has also developed the environmentally friendly bottom-filtration technology which integrates steam treatment, “white smoke” elimination technology and intelligent slag collection, which has won the Excellence Prize of China Patent Award and the First Prize of the Patent Award of China Association of Circular Economy.

As the earliest enterprise in China to study non-blast furnace ironmaking technology, CERI has completed the 2t/h COSRI Semi-Industrial Test Plant in the Chengde Pilot Plant of Ministry of Metallurgy, the 300,000t DRI Project of Tianjin Pipe Corporation and the 200,000t Two-Step Smelting Reduction Industrial Test Plant of Minmetals Yingkou. Now taking the "HBIS Group Hydrogen Direct Reduction Plant Paradigm Project" as an opportunity, CERI continues to contribute to the green development of world’s steel industry.

CERI is the only comprehensive system supplier in China who could provide process consultation and design, as well as procurement of the whole line equipment and automatic control system of medium-heavy plate production line, featuring innovative use of green and intelligent technologies, internationally leading process design, localization of the core equipment and the automatic control system.

As an outstanding supplier of hot continuous rolling, Steckel mill rolling and thin slab casting and rolling technologies, CERI has undertaken a large number of hot rolling projects at home and abroad, providing comprehensive services for all kinds of hot-rolled production lines. Its ultra-thin strip cast rolling technology is at the forefront around the world.

With leading technologies and brilliant references, CERI is the first company in China to provide technologies and made-in-China equipment for the whole cold rolling process. Its green technologies, such as acid-free pickling and high-speed powder coating, are at internationally advanced level. It owns proprietary technologies with independent intellectual property rights.

CERI has a history of 60 years of engineering design, project construction and equipment R&D. With its first-class professional engineers, it has accumulated rich design experience and mastered internationally leading technologies in metal forging and casting, railway wheel manufacturing, metallurgical machinery manufacturing, laboratories and other engineering professional fields.

CERI masters core technologies and equipment design of bar rolling such as deformation degree (pass design), deformation speed (speed ratio), motor and temperature control (controlled rolling and controlled cooling), etc. It has been responsible for the overall technology of several major high-quality and special steel projects home and abroad. It contributes to the development of national and industrial standards in bar rolling, and leads the technological progress of controlled rebar rolling process.

CERI has developed internationally advanced-level rolling mill, fly shear and controlled rolling and cooling equipment with independent intellectual property rights. Its shear products won the First Prize of Metallurgical Science and Technology Award in 2017 and 2019, and its all made-in-China high-speed bar equipment won the First Prize of Metallurgical Science and Technology Award in 2010.

CERI systematically masters the theory and technology of flexible rolling of high-speed wire rod. It is the first around the world to develop the technology of single-pass high-speed wire rod rolling. It also develops modular finishing mills, reducing and sizing mills, the technology of on-line shape, size and internal quality detection, controlled rolling and cooling, tracking and prediction of steel structure and performance, leading the technical progress in the field of wire rod rolling in China.

CERI supplies three-roll mandrel mill of domestically leading level, CPE pipe mill, large-diameter longitudinal welded pipe unit, as well as other steel pipe production lines and intelligent processing production lines. It has designed and supplied more than 100 seamless steel pipe projects and nearly 70 welded pipe projects for its customers at home and abroad.

On the basis of high-voltage power supply and distribution business of CERI's Electrical Control Division, CERI develops its healthy power grid products, which are "one-stop service" series products of enterprise power supply and distribution system, with the expert diagnosis service of whole-plant power supply and distribution system as the core and other supporting products. Its ultimate goal is to create a healthy enterprise power grid ecosystem for customers.

The products mainly include expert diagnosis service products of whole-plant power supply and distribution system; substation products; intelligent pipe network series products; self power generating products; new energy products; power quality series products.

Through the efforts to "re-discover", innovate and improve its advantages of conventional automatic control and drive technologies, CERI’s Electrical Control Division has developed its intelligent plant products, which are a series of intelligent control products with highly automated, green and energy-saving intelligent workshop as the core, with automatic control technologies as the foundation, and with the aim to build workshop-level intelligent ecological system and realize green manufacturing.

The products mainly include automatic control products in the conventional control fields (stock yard control, iron-making control, steel-making control, rolling control, process control, etc.), frequency converters, unmanned cranes, furnace model, and green energy-saving products with energy management and control as the core.

Combining the new generation of digital twin technology and its years of design experience, CERI has developed its digital plant products to build a digital virtual plant including all the processes of steel enterprise. It has completed the comprehensive integration of "digital design - digital delivery - digital operation and maintenance", and truly realized the digital whole-life-cycle management. Through the digitization of data flow, information flow and workflow, more efficient operation and management of the whole plant has been achieved.

Metallurgical big data analysis platform is developed by CERI through in-depth study and integration of production knowledge, optimal operating conditions and optimal management & control system. It is fully applied to the whole-process quality analysis and control, intelligent equipment operation and maintenance, refined cost analysis, intelligent production scheduling, etc. of the iron and steel industry. In terms of its application effect, the product qualification rate is increased by 0.2%, and the production efficiency and data analysis ability are greatly improved.

With the goal of "intelligent, efficient, coordinated and green production" and characterized by flattening, integration and intelligence, the intelligent production management is realized through industrial Internet, digital plant, virtual simulation, intelligent production scheduling and industrial big data. Through intelligent production management system, the intelligent management of the whole production process of steel enterprises is achieved, including the management of order, production scheduling, quality control, operation, cost, inventory and delivery.

CERI has developed the the intelligent energy management and control system through combining the current situation of energy management in steel enterprises and the new generation of digital technologies and unattended technologies. It realizes the integrated and unmanned management of water, electricity, air and gas in steel enterprises. With the the dynamic models such as gas and power load forecasting model and power generation optimization control model, it improves energy utilization and realizes efficient energy management.

In terms of its application effect, the self power generation ratio is increased by 3%, and the purchased electricity cost is greatly reduced; the comprehensive energy-saving benefit is increased by 0.3%, and the optimization rate of personnel on duty in the energy station is more than 30%.

Energy and Gas Engineering Technology Division, formerly known as Fuel Gas Department, is a core business division growing with CERI. Over the past 70 years, through the efforts and innovation of its engineers, it has developed industry-leading business products such as gas holders, air separation plants, gas desulfurization units.