TSIC Group

161

Sawmilling and planing of wood

Definition

Sawmilling and planing of wood includes the processing of logs into lumber and the subsequent planing of wood to achieve a smooth finish. Activities in this category involve cutting, shaping, and treating wood products for various uses, such as construction and manufacturing.

Foreign ownership

List 1: Closed to foreign majority

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.

Companies registered since 2022

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New DBD registrations under this code since 2022, summed across every 5-digit activity beneath it. Not the full historical register.

256
Registered
since 2022
236
Still active
20
Dissolved

New registrations per year, all sub-codes combined

2022peak 77 in 20232026

Source: DBD new-registration records, 2022 to present.

Classes under 161

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