THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

25209

Manufacture of heavy weapons, guns and other ammunition, not elsewhere classified

ประกอบกิจการค้า นำเข้า ส่งออก จำหน่าย หรือซ่อมบำรุง อาวุธปืน เครื่องกระสุนปืนทุกชนิด รวมทั้งอุปกรณ์และอะไหล่อาวุธปืน ทุกชนิด และเครื่องยุทธภัณฑ์ ทั้งนี้เป็นไปตามกฎหมายที่เกี่ยวข้อง

What this activity covers

This activity involves the manufacture of various firearms and ammunition for different uses.

  • Heavy weapons — Manufacture of cannons, machine guns, and rocket launchers
  • Small arms — Manufacture of revolvers, shotguns, and light machine guns
  • Handguns — Manufacture of handguns and air or gas guns
  • Sporting firearms — Manufacture of firearms for hunting and self-defense
  • Flare guns — Manufacture of devices for firing flares
  • Tear gas devices — Manufacture of instruments for firing tear gas

What companies here also do

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

  • Trade firearms — Selling firearms and ammunition
  • Sell military equipment — Acting as an agent for military equipment sales
  • Manufacture explosives — Production of explosives alongside firearms

Not included here

  • Production of broadswords, daggers, bayonets, etc. See activity 25931.
  • Manufacture of armored vehicles for transporting money or other valuables. See activity 29109.
  • Spacecraft manufacturing, see activity 30300
  • Production of tanks and other vehicles for use in combat. See activity 30400.

Foreign ownership

List 2: Restricted, Cabinet routeinherited from 2520

Production, sale, repair and maintenance of firearms, ammunition, gunpowder and explosives; their components; armaments, ships, aircraft or military vehicles; and equipment or components of all types of war materials

FBA B.E. 2542, List 2, Chapter 1 (1)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.

53
active companies operate here
฿616.7Mregistered capital, combined
฿1.9B
Sector revenue · 2025
+238% since 2023
฿91.1M
Net profit · 2025
20 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
0%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿0 foreign฿10.0M Thai

Based on few new registrations this year — read as a rough signal only.

1 of the 5 largest companies here are foreign-owned Thailand subsidiaries.

New in 2026

1+0.0%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿616.7M+5.4%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

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

  1. 1Kozan Industry Co., Ltd.฿1.4B
  2. 2Sun Commercial Development Co., Ltd.฿82.3M
  3. 3Namrung Industry Co., Ltd.฿63.9M
  4. 4Kozan Electronics (Thailand) Co., Ltd.intl฿47.5M
  5. 5Natharatchatree Co., Ltd.฿34.9M

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1Advance Metallica Co., Ltd.Lop Buri฿120.0M
  2. 2Royal Ammunition Co., Ltd.Nakhon Sawan฿102.0M
  3. 3Narak Arms Industry Co., Ltd.Ratchaburi฿100.0M

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.

6
Registered
since 2022
6
Still active
0
Dissolved
฿3.5M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 2 in 20222026

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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