THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

32501

Manufacture of medical instruments and supplies (except dental instruments and supplies)

ประกอบกิจการ ผลิต นำเข้า ส่งออก อุปกรณ์ ครุภัณฑ์ทางการแพทย์ เครื่องมือทางการแพทย์ทุกชนิด รวมทั้งอะไหล่และ อุปกรณ์ของเครื่องมือดังกล่าว

Definition

Manufacture of furniture for medical use and laboratory instruments, surgical instruments and medical instruments, various equipment for surgery Manufacture of surgical fabrics, threads and sterile cloths Manufacture of sterilizers for use in laboratories Manufacture of distillers and centrifuges in laboratories Manufacture of furniture for use in medicine, surgery or veterinary medicine, such as operating tables, examination tables, hospital beds with equipment Manufacture of bone plates and screws, syringes, needles, tubes and suction tubes, etc. Manufacture of orthopedic surgical instruments and organ transplant instruments Manufacture of glass for cutting glasses Manufacture of thermometers, including the production of various eye-related materials, such as eyeglasses, sunglasses, lenses for cutting glasses, contact lenses and safety glasses

Excluded from this code

  • Manufacture of medical devices such as cotton, wound dressings, etc. See activity 21001.
  • Manufacture of electrotherapy devices and electrophysiotherapy devices, see activity 26600
  • Manufacture of lenses and mirrors for optical purposes, see activity 26701
  • Manufacture of wheelchairs for the disabled. See activity 30922.

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.

258
Registered
since 2022
246
Still active
12
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 68 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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