Kian Joo Can Factory is building two manufacturing plants in the Thilawa Special Economic Zone, one for cans and one for corrugated containers via subsidiary Box-Pak, requiring US$23.5 million, with commercial production targeted for Q4 2018.

PTT Global Chemical's subsidiary Solution Creation Company agreed a joint venture with SP Petpack, taking a 25% share in SP Petpack Inter Group (Thai) for about Bt50 million to build a packaging factory in Myanmar.