THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

16101

Sawmilling of wood

ประกอบกิจการจำหน่ายไม้แปรรูป ไม้อัด ไม้พื้น วงกบ ประตู หน้าต่าง ไม้บัว ไม้คิ้ว และสินค้าซึ่งทำจากไม้ทุกชนิด

What this activity covers

Companies in this sector focus on sawing and processing wood into various products.

  • Wood sawing — Cutting logs into lumber
  • Wood planing — Smoothing and shaping wood surfaces
  • Log processing — Slicing and peeling logs
  • Wood product manufacturing — Creating items like railway sleepers and flooring
  • Wood waste production — Generating wood shavings, dust, and chips

What companies here also do

Seen in real company registrations under this code — beyond the official definition, so licensing may differ.

  • Wood drying — Removing moisture from wood
  • Wood turning — Shaping wood on a lathe
  • Wood packaging — Creating packaging products from wood
  • Furniture production — Making furniture from processed wood
  • Door and window manufacturing — Producing wooden doors and windows

Not included here

  • Timber and production of untreated wood, see activity 02200
  • Manufacture of thin veneer sheets for use in making plywood, plywood boards and square boards. See activity 16210.
  • Production of roofing shingles, making of wood trims and wooden forms. See 16220 activities.

Foreign ownership

List 1: Closed to foreign majorityinherited from 161

Forestry and timber processing from a natural forest

List 1 covers natural-forest activities only. Forestry from a grown (replanted) forest is a List 3 activity.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 1 (4)
List 2: Restricted, Cabinet routeinherited from 16

Timber processing for the production of furniture and utensils

Mapped broadly to wood processing and furniture manufacture divisions; the item is limited to timber processing for furniture and utensils.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 2, Chapter 3 (13)Routes: Cabinet permission, US Treaty of Amity

Auto-mapped, verify against the Act. These TSIC mappings are indicative, not legal advice; the schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority. See the full foreign ownership reference.

Industry at a glance

as of 23 ก.ค. 69

The whole registered industry under this activity, every registration year, from the DBD DataWarehouse.

988
active companies operate here
฿21.6Bregistered capital, combined
฿53.6B
Sector revenue · 2025
-25% since 2023
฿-485908777
Net profit · 2025
375 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
14%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿16.0M foreign฿98.9M Thai

Foreigners are actively investing in this activity.

New in 2026

42+90.9%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿21.6B-2.3%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

Latest filed-year revenue, not a multi-year total

  1. 1Siam Fiberboard Co., Ltd.฿3.8B
  2. 2Global Wood Chip Co., Ltd.฿2.7B
  3. 3Metro Industrial Park Co., Ltd.฿1.5B
  4. 4P.Y. Parawood Co., Ltd.฿1.3B
  5. 5K.P.T. Parawood Co., Ltd.฿1.2B

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1Evergreen Plus Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿4.7B
  2. 2Global Wood Chip Co., Ltd.Khon Kaen฿1.1B
  3. 3MANGROVE HOME FURNISHING CO., LTD.Chachoengsao฿729.6M

Source: Department of Business Development DataWarehouse. Financial figures are combined totals of companies that filed statements; revenue and profit shown for the latest three reporting years.

Companies registered since 2022

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New DBD registrations under this activity since 2022, the period the registry snapshot covers, not the full historical register.

195
Registered
since 2022
189
Still active
6
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 51 in 20232026

Largest active companies by registered capital

Source: Department of Business Development (DBD) new-registration records, 2022 to present. Counts cover companies first registered in that window, reflect the latest snapshot load, and may lag the live register.

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