TSIC Activity

46107

Wholesale on a fee or contract basis of construction materials, hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies

การขายส่งวัสดุที่ใช้ในการก่อสร้างผลิตภัณฑ์โลหะอุปกรณ์ระบบท่อโดยได้รับค่าตอบแทนหรือตามสัญญาจ้าง

What this activity covers

Wholesale of construction materials and metal products, including plumbing and heating equipment, for compensation or by contract.

  • Construction materials — Wholesale of materials like sand, gravel, paint, and varnish
  • Metal products — Wholesale of various metal items and products
  • Plumbing equipment — Wholesale of pipes, faucets, and sanitary ware
  • Heating equipment — Wholesale of water heaters and related items
  • Wood products — Wholesale of processed and unprocessed wood
  • Hand tools — Wholesale of tools like hammers, saws, and screwdrivers
  • Installation equipment — Wholesale of equipment for installation purposes

What companies here also do

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

  • Import and export — Importing and exporting various construction materials and metal products
  • Distribution — Distributing construction materials and metal products

Foreign ownership

List 3: Restricted, FBL/BOI route availableinherited from 461

Brokerage or agency business, except securities brokerage and agricultural futures trading, brokerage for the purchase and sale of goods or services necessary for production or services amongst affiliated enterprises, brokerage for international trading of domestically manufactured or imported goods, and other categories prescribed in ministerial regulations

The international-trading carve-out is subject to a minimum capital requirement, subject to capital thresholds, verify current figures.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 3 (11)Routes: Foreign Business Licence, BOI promotion, US Treaty of Amity
List 3: Restricted, FBL/BOI route availableinherited from 46

Wholesale of goods of all kinds, where the minimum capital per store is below the level prescribed in the Act

Not a hard restriction — only applies while under-capitalised. A foreign-majority wholesaler is exempt from this List 3 item (no Foreign Business Licence needed) once minimum registered capital reaches the Act's threshold, typically THB 100 million per store. Verify current ministerial-regulation figures.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 3 (15)Routes: Foreign Business Licence, BOI promotion, 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.

1,376
active companies operate here
฿9.2Bregistered capital, combined
฿53.8B
Sector revenue · 2025
+147% since 2023
฿684.4M
Net profit · 2025
515 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
31%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿90.0M foreign฿202.6M Thai

Foreigners are strongly represented in new investment under this activity.

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

New in 2026

166+72.9%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿9.2B+70.0%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

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

  1. 1SILONG (THAILAND) CO., LTD.intl฿28.4B
  2. 2JINGGONG CONSTRUCTION (THAILAND) CO., LTD.intl฿3.3B
  3. 3Thai Benkan Co., Ltd.฿979.5M
  4. 4S.W. Metal Management฿902.6M
  5. 5JKC Stainless Steel Co., Ltd.฿606.0M

Largest by registered capital

  1. 1Aica Asia Laminates Holding Co., Ltd.Bangkok฿3.3B
  2. 2JYD RECYCLING CORPORATION (THAILAND) CO., LTD.intlBangkok฿300.0M
  3. 3Thai Benkan Co., Ltd.Samut Prakan฿165.1M

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.

616
Registered
since 2022
585
Still active
31
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2015peak 151 in 20242026

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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