THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

26701

Manufacture of optical lenses

ประกอบกิจการผลิต จำหน่าย ขายปลีก ขายส่ง นำเข้า ส่งออก แว่นตา เลนส์ คอนแทคเลนส์ กรอบแว่น และอุปกรณ์ทางสายตาทุกชนิด รวมถึงให้บริการที่เกี่ยวข้องกับผลิตภัณฑ์ดังกล่าว

Definition

Manufacture of lenses for optical purposes; manufacture of optical glass, prisms and lenses (except ophthalmic lenses); coating and polishing of lenses (except ophthalmic lenses); assembly of lenses (except ophthalmic lenses); manufacture of lenses and prisms.

Excluded from this code

  • Production of various materials related to the eye. See activity 32501.

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.

11
Registered
since 2022
11
Still active
0
Dissolved
฿5.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2023peak 5 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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