THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

20231

Manufacture of soap and detergents, cleaning and polishing preparations

ประกอบกิจการผลิต ผลิตเพื่อขาย จำหน่าย ปลีก ส่ง น้ำยาทำความสะอาดทุกชนิด เช่น น้ำยาล้างจาน น้ำยาซักผ้า น้ำยาถูพื้น น้ำยาทำความสะอาดอเนกประสงค์ น้ำยาฆ่าเชื้อ น้ำยาทำความสะอาดรถยนต์ น้ำยาเคลือบสีรถ น้ำยาล

Definition

Manufacture of organic surfactants, manufacture of soap, manufacture of wadding paper, felt, etc., coated or covered with soap or detergent; manufacture of glycerol; manufacture of surfactants such as detergent, liquid soap, dishwashing liquid, fabric softener; manufacture of cleaning and polishing products, air fresheners or room deodorizers, artificial waxes and ready-made waxes, leather polishing creams, wooden floor polishing creams, car body polishing creams, glass and metal, cleaning creams and scouring powders and wadding coated or covered with these.

Excluded from this code

  • Manufacture of separation aids for compounds with chemical structures, see subgroup 2011.
  • -Production of synthetic glycerol from petroleum products. See activity 20115.

Foreign ownership

Not on the Foreign Business Act restricted lists.

The Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 (1999) restricts majority foreign ownership only for the activities named in its three annexed Lists. This activity is not among the mappings we hold, so a foreign investor can generally hold up to 100% of the equity, subject to any sector-specific licence and to minimum-capital rules (typically THB 2 million per restricted business, or THB 3 million where a Foreign Business Licence applies).

If an activity is restricted, the routes to foreign majority

  • BOI promotion — the Board of Investment can grant up to 100% foreign ownership for promoted activities, with tax and non-tax incentives.
  • Foreign Business Licence — permission from the Ministry of Commerce to operate a List 2 or List 3 activity as a foreign-majority company.
  • US Treaty of Amity — US nationals may hold majority ownership in most activities, treated as Thai nationals for FBA purposes.

This is general guidance, not legal advice, and mappings are auto-derived. The schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority; verify against the Act, or ask us to check your specific activity. See the full foreign ownership reference.

See the full foreign ownership reference for all three FBA lists.

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.

166
Registered
since 2022
150
Still active
16
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 45 in 20242026

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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