China-Thai relations have been good for decades in various aspects: trade, investment, and tourism. Especially, the natural rubber exports from Thailand to China continually expand. China is by far the largest consumer of natural rubber worldwide and most world tire production, so China's market is an important market to show a market sign of natural rubber demand each year. China’s economic direction is one of the factors which directly affect natural rub...
In 2020, the global economy tends to grow more positively as compared to 2019. International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected the global economic growth rate as 3.4% in 2020. Meanwhile, Thai Government has rolled out the economic stimulus measures to establish economic strengths both in domestic and foreign countries. One of the most important measures is the investment in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), which needs clarity as well as a continuati...
Thailand’s rubber market begins when farmers harvest latex, ribbed smoked sheet (RSS), cup lump rubber, and smoked sheet cutting. Then, these yields are sold through small, middle, large middleman or rubber cooperative to sell raw materials to the upstream rubber factories, such as latex factory, RSS factory, STR factory, rubber compound factory, mixtures rubber factory, etc. After that, it is distributed to domestic rubber-based products manufacturers and...
One
of the important roles of the Thai Rubber Association (TRA) is participating in
academic conferences both in Thailand and international countries. This is to
bring the technical knowledge together with the fresh information and news
based on rubber to the Thai Rubber Association’s members. In 2019, Ms.Piyaporn
Saelim, TRA Manager, was the de...
Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC) is a non-profit organization established to promote
and set standards to make sure that forestry is practiced in an environmentally
responsible and socially beneficial manner. The FSC certification is used to
certify that the plantation is forest management, and the timber-based products
are harvested from forest m...
