On February 15, Hanil Cement won the co-prosperity management award at the Fourteenth Korea Ethical Management Awards, an event hosted by New Industry Management Academy. The company developed mutual trust and cooperation with its partners through fair trade, thereby achieving mutual growth. In addition, it provided awards for outstanding partner companies and received proposals from them share management successes, in addition to making efforts to provide operating funds and strengthen financial stability of partner companies.

Furthermore, Hanil Cement set safety at the production site as its highest priority, and continued to conduct safety and hygiene activities to achieve zero incidents at its production plants. In particular, Danyang Plant operates a safety and hygiene management system to create a zero-incident site, as well as a safety and hygiene co-prosperity program for its partner companies, which resulted in 1,800 days without safety incidents last November, the longest in the history of the company. Korea Ethical Management Awards is an event in which the organization searches for outstanding ethical management cases in Korea, and Hanil Cement has previously won grand prizes in welfare policy in 2005 and environmental management in 2015.