THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

28160

Manufacture of lifting and handling equipment

ประกอบกิจการซื้อ และจัดหน่ายรถโฟล์คลิฟท์ พร้อมให้บริการซ่อม จัดหา วัสดุ อุปกรณ์ อะไหล่ที่เกี่ยวข้องของสินค้าดังกล่าว

Definition

Manufacture of machinery used for lifting, transporting, loading and unloading goods, which are hand-propelled or electrically powered, such as pulleys, cranes and hoists, winches and jacks, cranes, heavy-lift cranes, movable lifting frames, lifting platforms, forklifts, etc. Trucks with cranes or other lifting and transporting equipment attached, whether self-propelled or not, of the type used in industrial plants, including hand-propelled trucks and wheelbarrows (single-wheeled carts), mechanical and industrial robots designed for lifting, transporting, and unloading goods. Manufacture of conveyor belts, etc. Manufacture of elevators, escalators and moving walkways, including the manufacture of special spare parts used with lifting and transporting equipment.

Excluded from this code

  • Manufacture of elevators and conveyor belts that are constantly moving for underground use.
  • Manufacture of shovels, excavators and other material handling equipment, see subclass 2824.
  • Manufacture of multi-functional industrial robots, see subgroup 2829.
  • Manufacture of truck cranes, floating construction cranes, railway cranes, see subclasses 2910, 3011 and 3020.
  • Installation of elevators and escalators, see sub-category 4329.

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.

65
Registered
since 2022
59
Still active
6
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 19 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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