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Manufacturing maintains downward trend
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 29/03/2025
» Thailand's Manufacturing Production Index (MPI) continues to fall, declining by 3.91% year-on-year to 96.2 points in February, attributed to the combined effects of the country's high level of household debt and weak consumer purchasing power as well as the US's new trade policy, says the Office of Industrial Economics (OIE).
PTT set to rev up hydrogen investments
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 13/03/2025
» National oil and gas conglomerate PTT Plc is planning to strengthen investments in large-scale hydrogen energy development to serve industries, notably power generation, which increasingly require cleaner fuels.
Exxon cancels B330bn project
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 05/05/2022
» US oil and gas giant Exxon Mobil Corporation has scrapped its 330-billion-baht ethylene cracker and refinery expansion project in Chon Buri, but the decision will not affect the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) scheme, says a source at the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) who requested anonymity.
State mulls reply to oil price spike
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 08/03/2022
» The government has two choices to cope with the upsurge in global oil prices -- borrow more money to continue price subsidies or let local oil prices spike -- as the global price could soar to US$150 a barrel amid the Russia-Ukraine war.
IRPC anticipating uptick in naphtha prices
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 03/03/2022
» SET-listed IRPC, a petrochemical arm of national oil and gas conglomerate PTT Group, expects the Russia-Ukraine conflict to drive up prices of naphtha, a feedstock for the petrochemical industry, following soaring global crude oil prices.
Suriya: Protests not derailing FDI
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 27/10/2020
» The student-led protests against the government will not seriously affect the domestic economy as foreign investors view them as a short-term event, less frightening than the pandemic, says Industry Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit.
Smart Park being propelled ahead
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 25/08/2020
» Industry Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit plans to ask the cabinet to approve a 12-billion-baht Smart Park industrial estate as well new measures to stimulate car sales after the pandemic dies down.
Agency delays land reclamation research
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 26/12/2019
» The Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT) has postponed a study of 3,000 rai for land reclamation near Laem Chabang seaport in Chon Buri by another month, saying there are many unfinished procedures from state authorities.
BCP diesel products get upgrade to Euro 5
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 13/12/2019
» SET-listed Bangchak Corporation (BCP) plans to upgrade its diesel products to meet the Euro 5 standard as part of a trial at petrol stations in Bangkok from Dec 15 to Jan 16.
Egat told to hurry up Petronas LNG cancellation
Business, Lamonphet Apisitniran, Published on 20/09/2019
» The Energy Ministry has ordered the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) to speed up negotiations with Malaysia's Petronas LNG in order to seek a resolution to a suspended plan to import 1.5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas.