Thailand-based industrial conglomerate Siam Cement hopes to jack up 5-10% sales out of its paper and packaging this year, banking on demand from Southeast Asian countries. Domestic growth, however, is expected to be around 1-2%. Siam ...
Tags: Packaging Business, Siam Cement
Work on construction of a US$ 4.5 billion petrochemical complex in Vietnam, a joint venture of Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) and Thailand-based Siam Cement Group (SCG) and its Vietnamese partners - PetroVietnam (PVN) and Vinachem, is ...
Tags: Petrochem, Siam Cement Group
Beger Company, a Thai maker and distributor of wood coatings and industrial paint products, plans to set up its first foreign plant in Indonesia in the next five years to tap demand there. Vice-president Worawat Chaiyosburana said the ...
Tags: Paint Maker, Paint
Thailand-based Siam Cement Group (SCG) has formed a BHT2.2bn ($67m) joint venture (JV) with Nippon Paper Industries (NPI) in Japan to set up Siam Nippon Industrial Paper (SNP) plant, which will commence operations by mid-2014. The plant ...
Tags: Paper Plant, Vietnam's corrugated container, Packaging
SCG s vice president for corporate affairs, Tanawong Areeratchakul, said the company had signed a contract with SAP (Thailand) to upgrade its ERP project to boost growth domestically and in countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia. Under ...
Tags: The ERP project, Siam Cement Group, information technology
Thailand s Siam Cement Pcl doubled its forecast for sales growth of the construction material this year, but maintained its forecast for a fall in overall earnings as weak petrochemical prices dragged down third quarter profit. ...
Tags: market view, cement
Siam Cement, a barometer of Thailand s corporate health, posted April-June net profit of 4.28 billion Thai baht ($135 million), down from 7.49 billion baht a year earlier. Eleven analysts polled by Reuters had forecast an average net profit ...
Tags: market view, cement