THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

28230

Manufacture of machinery for metallurgy

ประกอบกิจการ ผลิต แปรรูป ประกอบ นำเข้า ส่งออก จำหน่าย วิจัยและพัฒนา ออกแบบ ทดสอบ ผลิตภัณฑ์โลหะ ชิ้นส่วนโลหะ แม่พิมพ์โลหะ ผลิตภัณฑ์พลาสติก ชิ้นส่วนพลาสติก แม่พิมพ์พลาสติก แม่พิมพ์ฉีดขึ้นรูปพลาสติก ผลิต

Definition

Manufacture of machinery and tools used for working with hot metal, such as furnaces, metal molds, metal scoops, metal casting machines, including the manufacture of metal rolling machines using rollers and rollers for such machinery.

Excluded from this code

  • Manufacture of metal pulling machinery, see subclass 2822.
  • Manufacture of crucibles and molds for melting (except metal moulds), see subgroup 2593.
  • Manufacture of machinery for forming metal forms, see subclass 2829.

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.

184
Registered
since 2022
175
Still active
9
Dissolved
฿2.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2019peak 53 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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