BASELINE STUDY 5, Thailand - Forest Trends

8.2 Forest Industry Players
Woodchip Purchasers
The following include the major purchases of eucalyptus woodchips as of 2000.
Table 5: Major Eucalyptus-Purchasing Companies and Their Demand as of 2000
Company Location Use Demand (Eucalyptus
Logs in GMT*/year)
Siam Tree Development (STD) Phimai Buying Center,
Nakhon Ratchasima
Buying Center (Chip Mill) 60,000
Siam Tree Development (STD) Payuhakiri Buying Center,
Nakhon Sawan
Buying Center (Chip Mill) 10,000
Siam Tree Development (STD) Factory Chonburi Chip Mill 450,000
Panjapon Paper Ayutthaya Pulp Mill 300,000
Siam Cellulose Kanchanaburi Pulp Mill 600,000
Thai Plywood Company Saraburi MDF/Particleboard n/d
Metro Fiber Kanchanaburi MDF/Particleboard 60,000
Wanachai Group Chonburi MDF/Particleboard 30,000
Bangpakong Chip Mill (may be a
part of Advance Agro Group)
Chachoengsao Chip Mill 600,000
Agro Lines (may be Advance
Agro Supplier)
Chachoengsao MDF/Particleboard 50,000
Advance Agro Prachinburi Pulp Mill 2,200,000
Kittawee Surin Chip Mill 250,000
Thai Wittawat Surin Chip Mill 250,000
Phoenix Pulp and Paper Khon Kaen Pulp Mill 1,000,000
5,860,000 GMT/Year
Source: Barney 2005.
* Note: GMT = Green Metric Tonnes.
Plantation Firms
Thai Hua Rubber Company is a major rubber manufacturer in Thailand which also holds a joint venture for a
rubber plantation concession in Laos.
Advance Agro Group is owned by Soon Hua Seng group. Advance Agro is Thailand’s most prominent consumers
of eucalyptus plantations, mainly for the production of pulp. The company sources most of its wood under
contract farming arrangements, but also has significant pulpwood areas under direct management.
Suan Kitti Company Limited, with acting director former senator Kitti Damnernchanvanit, is a plantation management
arm of Soon Hua Seng/Advance Agro.
Siam Forestry Company is a subsidiary of Siam Pulp and Paper (Siam Cement Group), is mostly involved in
pulpwood plantations in Kanchanaburi province.
Phoenix Pulp and Paper, a subsidiary of SCG, organizes smallholder pulpwood outgrower projects throughout
northeast Thailand.
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