T3 BUSINESS · PACKAGING THAILAND
Thailand's Packaging Industry: Designed, Manufactured and Export Ready
From paperboard, flexible film and rigid containers to filling lines, quality testing and circular-economy recycling — an investor-led view of Thailand's packaging value chain, with every figure sourced, scoped and dated.
Executive Snapshot
Thailand plastics articles — total export value (HS Chapter 39, all plastics articles)
USD 13.32 billion
2024
Covers all HS Chapter 39 plastics articles (a broad materials aggregate) — not a packaging-specific figure, and not combined with any other trade figure on this page.
Accessed 22 August 2026
Thailand's Roadmap on Plastic Waste Management — recyclability target
100% of target plastic packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2027
Phase 3 target, 2027
An adopted government policy roadmap target (2018–2030, three phases), not an achieved result and not a penalized statute — shown here with an ANNOUNCED policy status. See Sustainability & Circular Packaging.
Accessed 22 August 2026
TIPMSE "EPR in Action" initiative — partner organisations
149+ partner organisations mobilised
2025
A specific, dated industry-institute initiative — not a claim that extended producer responsibility (EPR) is currently mandatory nationwide in Thailand.
Accessed 22 August 2026
ProPak Asia 2026 — most recent edition
10–13 June 2026, IMPACT Muang Thong Thani, Bangkok (concluded)
2026
Venue corrected in this pass from the previously recorded BITEC to IMPACT Muang Thong Thani, confirmed via a direct fetch of the organiser's own "About the Show" page. Already concluded relative to this page's research date — see Trade Shows & Buyer Networking for status.
Accessed 22 August 2026
Data Scope
The Packaging Value Chain
Thailand's packaging industry runs from raw materials and design through printing, converting, filling, distribution and, increasingly, collection and recycling. Each stage below shows its core activities, typical inputs and outputs, the customer sectors it serves, where investment opportunities concentrate, and the constraints operators commonly face — expand a stage to see the detail.
Activities
- • Domestic and imported polymer resin supply (PET, PP, PE, HDPE and others)
- • Kraft paper and paperboard pulping/sourcing
- • Glass and metal feedstock (cullet, aluminium, tinplate) sourcing
- • Recycled/PCR (post-consumer resin) feedstock collection and processing
Inputs → Outputs
In: Virgin and recycled polymer resins, Pulp and recovered paper, Glass cullet and metal scrap, Bio-based feedstocks (for select bioplastics)
Out: Resin pellets and film-grade polymers, Paperboard reels and sheets, Glass and metal feedstock ready for forming
Customer Sectors
- • Flexible packaging converters
- • Rigid plastic and glass manufacturers
- • Paperboard and corrugated producers
Investment Opportunities
- • Recycled-content (PCR/rPET) processing capacity
- • Bio-based and compostable feedstock development
Constraints
- • Thailand imports a significant share of virgin polymer feedstock and specialty resins
- • Recycled-feedstock supply depends on collection and sorting infrastructure that remains uneven across regions
Activities
- • Structural packaging design for cost, protection and shelf performance
- • Prepress, colour separation and plate/cylinder preparation for print
- • Mould and die tooling for rigid containers and forming equipment
Inputs → Outputs
In: Brand and product specifications, Regulatory/labelling requirements, Material specifications from Stage 1
Out: Print-ready files and plates/cylinders, Production tooling (moulds, dies, forming tools), Structural design files
Customer Sectors
- • Brand owners across food, beverage, cosmetics and industrial goods
- • Contract packaging converters
Investment Opportunities
- • Design-for-recyclability and lightweighting services
- • Digital prepress and colour-management capability
Constraints
- • Tooling lead times and costs can be a barrier for smaller brand owners entering new formats
Activities
- • Flexographic, gravure, offset and digital printing
- • Film extrusion, lamination and slitting for flexible packaging
- • Injection moulding, blow moulding, thermoforming and glass/metal forming for rigid packaging
- • Corrugated board conversion (cartons, trays, displays)
Inputs → Outputs
In: Resin, film, paperboard and glass/metal feedstock, Inks, adhesives and coatings, Production tooling
Out: Finished flexible packaging (pouches, films, laminates), Finished rigid packaging (bottles, jars, tubs, cans), Printed cartons, labels and corrugated products
Customer Sectors
- • Food and beverage manufacturers
- • Cosmetics and personal-care brands
- • Pharmaceutical and industrial goods producers
Investment Opportunities
- • High-barrier flexible-film capacity
- • Mono-material and recyclable-format conversion lines
Constraints
- • Capital-intensive equipment upgrades needed to shift toward recyclable mono-material formats
Activities
- • Aseptic and standard filling for liquids, foods and personal-care products
- • Sealing, capping and secondary packing (cartoning, palletising)
- • In-line quality control — seal integrity, fill weight, barrier performance
Inputs → Outputs
In: Finished primary packaging from Stage 3, Product to be packaged, Quality-control equipment and testing protocols
Out: Filled, sealed, market-ready packaged products, QA/QC records supporting shelf-life and compliance claims
Customer Sectors
- • Food, beverage and dairy producers
- • Cosmetics and personal-care manufacturers
- • Pharmaceutical manufacturers
Investment Opportunities
- • Aseptic filling capacity for extended shelf-life products
- • Automated in-line inspection systems
Constraints
- • Aseptic and high-speed filling lines represent significant capital investment
Activities
- • Corrugated transit packaging and palletisation design
- • Cold-chain and insulated packaging for perishable goods
- • E-commerce parcel packaging — right-sizing, protective void-fill, tamper-evidence
Inputs → Outputs
In: Corrugated board and protective materials, Cold-chain insulation and refrigerant packs, Parcel-level packaging formats
Out: Transit-ready palletised shipments, Temperature-controlled shipments, E-commerce-ready parcels
Customer Sectors
- • Retailers and e-commerce platforms
- • Cold-chain food and pharmaceutical logistics operators
- • Export manufacturers across sectors
Investment Opportunities
- • Right-sizing and reduced-void-fill e-commerce packaging systems
- • Recyclable cold-chain insulation alternatives
Constraints
- • E-commerce packaging volumes are rising quickly, adding pressure on recyclability and cost simultaneously
Activities
- • Post-consumer packaging collection and sorting
- • Mechanical and, in limited cases, chemical recycling of packaging materials
- • Closed-loop and refill-system pilots
Inputs → Outputs
In: Post-consumer packaging waste, Sorting and material-recovery infrastructure
Out: Recycled feedstock (PCR resin, recovered fibre, cullet, metal) fed back into Stage 1, Diverted packaging waste
Customer Sectors
- • Recyclers and material-recovery operators
- • Brand owners with recycled-content commitments
- • Municipal and private waste-management operators
Investment Opportunities
- • Sorting and material-recovery-facility (MRF) infrastructure
- • Mechanical recycling capacity for common packaging polymers
Constraints
- • Collection and sorting infrastructure coverage varies significantly by region
- • Chemical recycling capacity in Thailand remains limited relative to mechanical recycling
Major Packaging Segments
Paperboard, Cartons & Printing
Paperboard and corrugated packaging spans folding cartons, rigid boxes, corrugated shipping cases and printed point-of-sale displays. Thailand's printing and converting base serves both domestic fast-moving consumer goods brands and export manufacturers needing compliant, print-heavy retail packaging.
Fibre-based packaging is broadly recyclable through established paper-recycling streams, but recyclability depends on coatings, laminations and inks used — a plain claim of "recyclable" should specify the exact format and any barrier coating.
Flexible Packaging & Film
Flexible packaging — pouches, films, laminates and sachets — is widely used across food, beverage and personal-care products for its light weight and barrier performance. Thailand's converters range from multinational film producers to domestic laminators serving regional export markets.
Multi-material laminate structures (common for barrier performance) are harder to recycle than mono-material film — the shift toward recyclable mono-material flexible formats is an active but not yet universal industry trend.
Rigid Glass, Metal & Plastic Packaging
Rigid packaging covers glass and PET bottles, metal cans, and rigid plastic tubs and jars used across beverages, food, cosmetics and industrial products. Thailand's rigid-packaging base includes both dedicated container manufacturers and brand-owner captive production.
Glass and metal packaging have well-established recycling streams in Thailand's formal and informal collection systems; rigid plastic recyclability varies by resin type and colour/additive content.
Food & Beverage Packaging
Food-contact packaging spans aseptic cartons, retort pouches, modified-atmosphere trays and beverage containers, produced to Thai FDA food-contact and shelf-life requirements. This segment sits closest to Thailand's large food and beverage export manufacturing base — see Food, Beverage & FMCG Thailand for the wider sector.
Food-contact packaging carries specific regulatory obligations (migration limits, food-contact material approval) — see Quality, Safety & Regulatory Verification below.
Cosmetic & Personal-Care Packaging
Cosmetics and personal-care packaging ranges from premium rigid jars and airless pumps to flexible sachets and refill pouches, closely tied to Thailand's cosmetics manufacturing and OEM/ODM base — see Cosmetics & Wellness Products Thailand for the wider brand and manufacturing landscape.
Premium cosmetics packaging often combines multiple materials (plastic, metal, glass components) for aesthetic and functional reasons, which can complicate end-of-life recyclability compared with single-material formats.
E-commerce & Corrugated Fulfilment
E-commerce fulfilment packaging — corrugated mailers, protective void-fill and tamper-evident sealing — has grown alongside Thailand's e-commerce and logistics sectors, connecting directly to the Distribution, Transit & E-commerce stage of the value chain above.
Right-sizing packaging to reduce void-fill and material use is an active efficiency and sustainability lever for e-commerce fulfilment operators, though adoption levels across the market were not independently quantified in this pass.
Material Comparison Note
Quality, Safety & Regulatory Verification
Packaging destined for food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products in Thailand is subject to food-contact material rules enforced by the Thai FDA, general industrial product standards from the Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI), and factory-level oversight from the Department of Industrial Works (DIW) under the Ministry of Industry. Packaging testing typically covers barrier performance, migration limits for food-contact materials, seal integrity, compression and drop resistance, and shelf-life validation. GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) certifications, where held, apply to a specific manufacturing facility or product line — not automatically to every product a company makes — and should always be confirmed at the facility/product level rather than assumed company-wide. Export shipments additionally require correct customs documentation and, depending on the destination market, compliance with that market's own packaging and labelling standards.
Regulatory Scope
Automation, Machinery & Smart Packaging
Thailand's packaging machinery landscape spans both imported production-line equipment and a domestic machinery-supply and integration base, covering filling, sealing, labelling, palletising and in-line inspection systems. "Smart packaging" features such as QR-code-based traceability and tamper-evident sealing are used by some Thai brand owners and exporters, particularly for export markets with specific traceability requirements — this page does not claim broad, sector-wide adoption of advanced technologies such as blockchain-based traceability or AI-driven quality inspection, since no independently verified evidence of widespread deployment across the Thai packaging sector was identified in this research pass. Where a specific company or facility publicly documents a named smart-packaging or automation deployment, that should be cited to the company directly rather than generalised to the sector.
Sustainability & Circular Packaging
Thailand's packaging sustainability landscape spans lightweighting, design-for-recyclability, recycled-content (PCR/rPET) adoption, alternative fibre materials, reuse and refill formats, and compostable or bio-based materials — alongside the collection and sorting infrastructure needed to make any of these approaches work in practice. This section avoids unqualified sustainability labels: a material or format is only described as "recyclable" or "compostable" where that claim is defined, sourced and appropriately qualified (by format, region or disposal pathway) below.
Roadmap on Plastic Waste Management B.E. 2561–2573 (2018–2030)
Adopted national policy roadmap in three phases (2019, 2022, 2027) targeting 100% of target plastic packaging types being recyclable, reusable or compostable, and the elimination of specific single-use plastic items, by 2027.
Adopted 2019; Phase 3 target 2027
Sustainable Packaging Management Act (draft)
A draft law that would introduce extended producer responsibility (EPR) obligations for packaging in Thailand, opened for public hearing by the Pollution Control Department 18–28 March 2024. Under the draft, the law would enter into force 360 days after promulgation, with penalty articles (40–51) delayed a further two years. Current exact promulgation status was not independently confirmed in this research pass — treat as draft/under-consultation until confirmed otherwise directly with the Pollution Control Department.
Public hearing 18–28 March 2024; promulgation status not independently confirmed
PackBack EPR Pilot
A voluntary extended producer responsibility pilot programme in Chonburi, launched by TIPMSE in 2021, testing packaging collection and recycling mechanisms ahead of any mandatory national EPR framework.
Launched 2021
"EPR in Action" Initiative
A 2025 TIPMSE initiative mobilising 149+ partner organisations around voluntary extended producer responsibility practices for packaging, ahead of any mandatory statutory EPR requirement.
2025
Policy Status
Trade, Tariffs & Market Access
Thailand's plastics-articles exports (HS Chapter 39 — a broad materials aggregate covering all plastics articles, not packaging specifically) were valued at USD 13.32 billion in 2024, reported via UN Comtrade data through TradingEconomics.com. This figure is shown for orientation on Thailand's wider plastics-manufacturing base; it is not a packaging-specific export figure and should not be read as "Thailand's packaging exports". A packaging-specific HS-code breakdown (e.g. specific corrugated, flexible-film or rigid-container export values) was not independently located in this research pass and is not stated here as a result — see the Sources & Methodology section for this and other disclosed data gaps.
Data Scope
Customs & Duties
FTAs & Market Access
Thailand's free trade agreement network — reused from T3's central, verified FTA dataset (see Business Gateway) rather than duplicated here.
ASEAN & Regional
ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement
ATIGA
In effectThe foundational ASEAN free-trade framework — preferential or zero tariffs on most goods traded within the ten-member ASEAN Economic Community.
ASEAN & Regional
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
RCEP
In effect (Thailand, since 1 Jan 2022)The largest regional trade pact by GDP, linking ASEAN with China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand under common rules of origin.
East Asia
ASEAN–China Free Trade Area
ACFTA / ACFTA 3.0
In effect; 3.0 Upgrade Protocol signed, not yet in forcePreferential tariff access into China, Thailand's largest single food and one of its largest overall export markets. A 3.0 Upgrade Protocol adding digital economy, green economy and supply-chain chapters was signed by ASEAN and China on 28 October 2025.
East Asia
ASEAN–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership
AJCEP
In effectRegional preferential access into Japan, alongside Thailand's bilateral JTEPA below.
East Asia
Japan–Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement
JTEPA
In effectBilateral preferential tariffs and streamlined rules of origin between Thailand and Japan, one of Thailand's established premium export markets.
East Asia
ASEAN–Korea Free Trade Area
AKFTA
In effectPreferential tariff access into South Korea for qualifying Thai goods.
East Asia
ASEAN–Hong Kong, China Free Trade Agreement
AHKFTA
In effect since 12 Feb 2021Preferential access into Hong Kong; a 2024 protocol expanded product-specific origin rules from around 200 to almost 600 tariff lines.
South Asia
ASEAN–India Trade in Goods Agreement
AITIGA
In effect (since 2010); under review and upgrade negotiationThe regional ASEAN–India goods agreement is in force but is currently being reviewed and upgraded — the 12th Joint Committee meeting was held in March 2026, targeting substantial conclusion of the upgrade during 2026.
South Asia
Thailand–India Early Harvest Scheme
Bilateral EHS, not a full FTA
In effect since 2006 — limited scopeA limited preferential arrangement covering 82 product categories (including fruit, processed food, gems and jewellery, iron and steel, auto parts and electronics). A comprehensive bilateral FTA/CECA covering services and investment remains under negotiation.
Oceania
Thailand–Australia Free Trade Agreement
TAFTA
In effectBilateral tariff preferences into Australia, complementing the regional AANZFTA below.
Oceania
ASEAN–Australia–New Zealand Free Trade Area
AANZFTA
In effectRegional preferential access into both Australia and New Zealand, alongside Thailand's bilateral agreements with each.
Oceania
Thailand–New Zealand Closer Economic Partnership
TNZCEP
In effectBilateral tariff preferences into New Zealand for qualifying Thai goods.
Americas
Thailand–Chile Free Trade Agreement
In effect since 5 Nov 2015
In effectTariffs eliminated on 90% of goods traded at entry into force, with the remaining 10% phased out between 2020 and 2023 — a rare Latin American market-access route for Thai exporters.
Americas
Thailand–Peru Early Harvest Scheme
Bilateral EHS, not a full FTA
In effect since 2011 — partial scopePreferential tariffs on approximately 70% of goods traded under the Early Harvest Scheme; the full bilateral FTA has not been concluded, so coverage is partial rather than comprehensive.
Under Negotiation
Thailand–European Union Free Trade Agreement
Under negotiation — not yet signed or in force
Under negotiationAround two-thirds of the agreement (15 of 24 chapters) was reported concluded as of July 2026, with both sides targeting conclusion in 2026. A further negotiating round was scheduled for late September 2026 in Thailand. This is not a signed or in-force agreement.
BOI Investment Incentives
Ordinary packaging production — general converting, printing, filling or forming without a specific promoted-activity qualification — is not itself an automatically BOI-eligible activity carrying an unconditional corporate income tax (CIT) holiday. BOI incentives instead attach to specific eligible activities and project-level conditions confirmed in BOI's current Investment Promotion Guide. The pathways below show where packaging-adjacent investment more plausibly connects to BOI's activity list — each requires direct confirmation with BOI before being relied upon.
Advanced & Functional Packaging Materials
- High-barrier, functional or advanced-material packaging manufacturing may connect to BOI's materials/chemicals-industry activity categories
- Eligibility depends on the specific material/process, not "packaging" as a general category
Recycled-Material & Circular-Economy Processing
- Recycling and circular-economy-linked manufacturing activities are an area of active BOI policy interest under Thailand's Bio-Circular-Green (BCG) economic model
- A claimed 5-year CIT exemption specifically for "eco-friendly polymer" manufacturers (reported since 2021) appears only on private legal/investment-advisory sites reviewed in this pass, not on boi.go.th itself
Bioplastics & Bio-Based Materials
- Bio-based and biodegradable/compostable plastics manufacturing is a recognised BCG-aligned investment theme in Thailand
- Exact BOI activity code, tier and current conditions require direct confirmation
Packaging Machinery & Automation Manufacturing
- Manufacturing of packaging machinery, automation systems or industrial robotics may connect to BOI's machinery/automation activity categories
- Distinct from operating a packaging factory — this pathway concerns manufacturing the machines themselves
Investment Verification
Key Industry Players
Paper, Board & Corrugated Producers
SCG Packaging (SCGP)
Primary — openedA Thailand-headquartered, SET-listed integrated packaging company self-described on its own official site as a regional leader in packaging solutions across paper, fibre-based and plastic-based packaging for consumer, food and industrial customers.
Primary — opened directly, 22 August 2026. "Regional leader" language reflects SCGP's own self-description, not an independently verified ranking.
Material & Resin Suppliers
Berli Jucker Public Company Limited (BJC)
Primary — openedA diversified Thai conglomerate with a packaging manufacturing division alongside consumer, healthcare and technical businesses; a SET-listed public company.
Primary — opened directly, 22 August 2026.
Material & Resin Suppliers
Indorama Ventures
Primary — openedA Thailand-headquartered, SET-listed global chemicals producer including PET resin production, a key upstream material input for rigid plastic and flexible packaging.
Primary — opened directly, 22 August 2026. Listed here as an upstream resin/materials supplier to the packaging value chain, not as a packaging converter itself.
Flexible Packaging Converters
Tetra Pak (Thailand)
Primary — openedThe Thailand operation of the global aseptic-carton packaging company Tetra Pak, supplying aseptic and other liquid-food packaging systems to Thailand's food and beverage manufacturers.
Primary — opened directly, 22 August 2026. Shown as a Thai subsidiary of a global brand, not a Thailand-headquartered company.
Directory Coverage
Government Bodies & Institutes
Trade & Investment
Thailand Board of Investment (BOI)
National investment-promotion authority — see the BOI Investment Incentives section above for this page's specific, verified findings.
Primary — opened directly, 22 August 2026.
Trade & Investment
Thai Customs Department
Administers import/export customs valuation, duties and documentation for packaging materials and packaged goods.
Search-verified — not independently opened in this pass.
Trade & Investment
Department of Foreign Trade (DFT)
Ministry of Commerce department administering trade remedies, import/export regulation and rules-of-origin certification.
Search-verified — not independently opened in this pass.
Trade & Investment
Department of International Trade Promotion (DITP)
Ministry of Commerce agency supporting Thai exporters, including packaging and packaging-machinery trade promotion.
Primary — opened directly (in prior sessions' research on this domain), 22 August 2026.
Standards & Regulation
Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI)
National standards and certification body under the Ministry of Industry, relevant to packaging material and product standards.
Search-verified — not independently opened in this pass.
Standards & Regulation
Department of Industrial Works (DIW)
Administers factory-operating licences relevant to packaging manufacturing facilities.
Search-verified — not independently opened in this pass.
Standards & Regulation
Thai Food and Drug Administration (Thai FDA)
Regulates food-contact packaging materials and enforces migration-limit and food-safety requirements relevant to food and pharmaceutical packaging.
Search-verified — not independently opened in this pass.
Environment & Circular Economy
Pollution Control Department (PCD)
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment department leading Thailand's Roadmap on Plastic Waste Management and the draft Sustainable Packaging Management Act.
Primary — opened directly, 22 August 2026.
Directory Coverage
Associations & Professional Networks
TMTA and MBM (Thailand's cross-sector Muslim trade/business-matching platforms) and TPCC (the Thailand-Pakistan Chamber of Commerce) are not shown in this section — no verified, documented packaging-sector connection for either organisation was identified in this research pass. Associations shown below are drawn from T3's central verified business-networks dataset, filtered to the Packaging sector.
The Thai Packaging Association
Represents Thailand's paper, plastic, metal and glass packaging manufacturing industry.
Official source verified · Last verified 21 August 2026
Thailand Institute of Packaging and Recycling Management for Sustainable Environment
TIPMSE
Industry-led circular-packaging and EPR institute (under the Federation of Thai Industries)
A Federation of Thai Industries institute driving extended producer responsibility (EPR) and closed-loop packaging management in Thailand, established 20 December 2005 — runs the PackBack pilot (Chonburi, launched 2021) and the 2025 "EPR in Action" initiative.
Official source verified · Last verified 21 August 2026
Plastics Institute of Thailand
PITH
Industrial-development institute (under the Ministry of Industry's Foundation for Industrial Development)
A not-for-profit institute under the Foundation for Industrial Development, Ministry of Industry, founded 16 November 2010, supporting the long-term development of Thailand's plastics industry with government, education and private-sector partners.
Official source verified · Last verified 21 August 2026
The Thai Printing Association
Represents Thailand's printing industry.
Official source verified · Last verified 21 August 2026
Trade Shows & Buyer Networking
Thailand's two flagship packaging and printing trade exhibitions bring together machinery suppliers, material producers, converters and brand-owner buyers under one roof. Dates and venues below are shown exactly as confirmed, with any past edition marked concluded and any unconfirmed recurring date disclosed as such rather than guessed.
ProPak Asia 2026
ConcludedThailand's major processing and packaging technology exhibition for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, spanning packaging machinery, materials and printing/labelling technology.
- Dates:
- 10–13 June 2026 (concluded) · next edition's exact dates not yet confirmed by the organiser
- Location:
- IMPACT Muang Thong Thani, Bangkok
- Focus:
- Processing and packaging technology, machinery, materials and printing/labelling
Primary — opened · Accessed 22 August 2026
Pack Print International
Recurring — Next Date Not VerifiedA biennial Thailand packaging and printing trade exhibition covering packaging machinery, materials, printing technology and converting equipment.
- Dates:
- Recurring biennial event — next confirmed edition date not independently verified in this pass
- Location:
- BITEC (Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre), Bangkok
- Focus:
- Packaging and printing machinery, materials and converting technology
Search-verified · Accessed 22 August 2026
Event Date Status
Sources & Methodology
Every quantitative or time-sensitive claim on this page is sourced to a specific publisher, dated, and scoped to exactly what it covers — grouped below by topic. Where a claim could not be independently confirmed to a primary source in this research pass, that limitation is stated explicitly rather than the claim being omitted silently or presented with false confidence.
Trade & Tariffs
Thailand plastics-articles exports (HS Chapter 39)
UN Comtrade data, via TradingEconomics.com
2024 total plastics-articles export value shown in Executive Snapshot and Trade, Tariffs & Market Access.
Limitation: A broad HS Chapter 39 materials aggregate, not packaging-specific; reported via an aggregator rather than opened directly against UN Comtrade.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
ProPak Asia 2026 — official "About the Show" page
ProPak Asia (organiser)
Corrected 2026 edition dates and venue (IMPACT Muang Thong Thani, not BITEC).
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
Policy & Regulation
Roadmap on Plastic Waste Management B.E. 2561–2573
Pollution Control Department
Three-phase roadmap structure and 2027 recyclability target shown in Sustainability & Circular Packaging.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
Sustainable Packaging Management Act — public hearing notice
Pollution Control Department
Draft EPR law status, public-hearing dates and staged entry-into-force structure.
Limitation: Current exact promulgation status not independently confirmed in this pass — treated as draft/under consultation.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
BOI & Investment
BOI Eligible Activities & Conditions (official index)
Thailand Board of Investment
Finding that ordinary packaging production is not a named, unconditional BOI-eligible activity; framing of adjacent activity pathways.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
Private legal/investment-advisory sources describing an eco-friendly-polymer CIT exemption
Industry legal/investment advisers (not a BOI-owned source)
Basis for the "Reported by industry advisers" eco-friendly-polymer incentive note.
Limitation: Not confirmed directly on boi.go.th in this pass — shown with an explicit confirm-directly caveat, never presented as a confirmed BOI fact.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
Companies & Associations
SCG Packaging (SCGP) official site
SCGP
SCGP company profile and self-description in Key Industry Players.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
Berli Jucker (BJC) official site
Berli Jucker Public Company Limited
BJC company profile and SET-listing status.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
Indorama Ventures official site
Indorama Ventures
Indorama Ventures profile as an upstream resin/materials supplier.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
Tetra Pak Thailand official site
Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak Thailand operation profile.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
TIPMSE official site
Thailand Institute of Packaging and Recycling Management for Sustainable Environment
TIPMSE founding date, FTI affiliation, PackBack pilot and EPR in Action initiative.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
Plastics Institute of Thailand (PITH) official site
Plastics Institute of Thailand
PITH founding date and institutional affiliation.
Limitation: A near-identical fake mirror domain (thaiplastics.petrolsolutions.com) was identified and excluded during this research pass.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
The Thai Packaging Association official site
The Thai Packaging Association
Thai Packaging Association profile in Government Bodies, Institutes & Associations.
SourceAccessed 21 August 2026 (reused from T3's central business-networks dataset)
The Thai Printing Association official site
The Thai Printing Association
Thai Printing Association profile in Government Bodies, Institutes & Associations.
SourceAccessed 21 August 2026 (reused from T3's central business-networks dataset)
Exhibitions & Events
ProPak Asia official site
ProPak Asia (organiser)
ProPak Asia 2026 dates, venue and CONCLUDED status.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
Pack Print International
Search-verified
Pack Print International's existence as a genuine biennial event.
Limitation: Organiser's own page not independently opened in this pass; next edition date not verified.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
Sustainability & Standards
TIPMSE "EPR in Action" and PackBack materials
TIPMSE
EPR in Action partner count (149+) and PackBack pilot details shown in Sustainability & Circular Packaging.
SourceAccessed 22 August 2026
Last updated 22 August 2026.
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