Tetra Pak will build a new plant at its existing Straws and Strips Plant in Rayong, Thailand, to manufacture closures for carton packaging. The €24 million investment is expected to create around 60 jobs and produce more than 3 billion closures per year when it opens in early 2021.

Aptar opened a 5,000 square meter facility in Chonburi, Thailand, with injection, assembly and finishing capabilities and room for expansion. The opening was reported on 11 March 2020.

Corbion will invest approximately US$190 million in a new 125,000 metric ton lactic acid plant at its existing Rayong Province site in Thailand, using its gypsum-free technology.

Bangkok Glass Group's container glass unit BGC reportedly bought a 25% share in BS Glass Recycling Company, Thailand's largest buyer of used glass bottles, as part of its strategy to invest in clean energy and paper packaging.

Interroll moved its Thailand operations into a new 4,800-square-metre plant in Phantong, Chonburi, to serve Southeast Asian material handling demand. The site makes rollers, RollerDrive, pallet flow and drum motors, and will add a modular conveyor platform line by end-2019.

SCG's Packaging Business acquired an 80% stake in Visy Packaging (Thailand) from Visy Singapore Investments for about 4,341 million THB, adding thermoformed food packaging capacity.

Paul & Co Asia, a German-Thai joint venture of the Kunert and Sachdev families, opened a new 8,800 sq m plant in Tambon Takiantia near Chonburi, Thailand, to make paper cores and corner protectors for film and packaging makers.

BHS Corrugated was contracted by Hiang Seng Fibre Containers to supply and install a 2.8m corrugating line at its Ekachai 2 plant in Thailand after a fire in April 2016; the line began commissioning in late 2016.

A consortium of Saipem, Samsung Engineering and Petrofac won a contract worth about USD4 billion from Thai Oil to upgrade its Sriracha refinery under the Clean Fuel Project, raising capacity from 275,000 to 400,000 bpd over about four years.

Nordson Corporation's Chonburi facility in Thailand has expanded its Xaloy screw and barrel manufacturing capacity with new systems and now also supports the BKG brand with technical service and a new pelletizing lab line.

Chinese household appliance pump maker Idear-Hanyu Electrical plans to buy 100% of Thai component maker Seil Controls from three South Korean shareholders for cash, according to a statement on August 15, 2018. Due diligence is to be completed within 45 days, with 80% of the price paid upon completion.

Samsung Engineering approached AMPO POYAM Valves to design and manufacture more than 4,000 gate and globe valves for PTT Global Chemical's olefins reconfiguration plant in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, Thailand. The plant is expected to start operations in early 2021, with an investment of 820 million.

Samsung Engineering selected Ampo Poyam Valves to supply more than 4,000 gate and globe valves for PTT Global Chemical's olefins reconfiguration project in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, Thailand. The project is valued at up to $820 million and expected to start in early 2021.

Electronics For Imaging and Thai Containers Group, a subsidiary of SCG's packaging business, announced a digital printing partnership in which TCG purchased an EFI Nozomi C18000 inkjet corrugated packaging press. It will be the first EFI Nozomi installation in Asia.

A CTCI-Saipem joint venture was awarded the EPC contract for the Nong Fab LNG receiving terminal in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, by PTT LNG, a PTT subsidiary, valued at about USD 925 million.

Bangkok Can Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Japan's Toyo Seikan Group, is building a new two-piece aluminium beverage can plant at Rojana Industrial Park in Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, with a US$84.2 million investment. Startup is targeted for May 2019.

Toyo Seikan Group's subsidiary Bangkok Can Manufacturing will build a new aluminum beverage can plant at Rojana Industrial Estate in Ayutthaya Province, Thailand, with an investment of 9 billion yen and operations scheduled from May 2019.

BorgWarner inaugurated a new turbocharger production plant of about 6,500 square meters in the Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate in Rayong, Thailand, on March 7, 2018, to serve Asian automakers.

SCG-backed Thai Containers Group acquired the remaining 25% stake in packaging firms for $8.4 million. The announcement was reported on February 1, 2018.

Bosch opened a new fuel injection plant in Hemaraj, Rayong, about 130 km east of Bangkok, its first smart factory in Thailand and second mobility plant there. About 80 million euros is invested from 2015 to end 2017.

South Korea's SC Engineering signed an EPC contract worth 36.9 billion won (about $33.6 million) to supply heat recovery steam generators for a 110 MW combined heat and power plant in Rayong, Thailand, developed by Nexif Energy. Doosan Heavy Industries is partnering on the project.

Grohe Siam opened an expanded zinc die-cast plant in Klaeng district, Rayong, doubling production capacity on a 12,000 sqm site, with an investment of USD 30 million and plans to create over 800 jobs within five years.

BG Container Glass, a subsidiary of Bangkok Glass, announced a Bt2 billion glass-container factory in Ratchaburi with daily capacity of 400 tonnes. The plant is due to start operations in the third quarter of 2018.

Toppan Printing and ITOCHU agreed a capital and business alliance to acquire a 10.7% stake in TPN Food Packaging, a Thai flexible packaging company set up by the TPN Group, targeting food and toiletry packaging.

Samsung Engineering won a 86.54 billion won lump-sum turnkey contract from Thailand's state energy company PTT Public Company Limited for the Wangnoi Compressor Station Project. The work runs from December 2016 to December 2018.

Tetra Pak is investing EUR 24 million ($25 million) in its first factory for carton packaging closures, located within its existing Straws and Strips plant in Rayong, Thailand. The plant will open in 2018, create 60 jobs and produce more than 3 billion closures a year.

Corbion will expand its existing lactide plant in Rayong, Thailand by 25,000 tons per annum, with start-up targeted for the second half of 2018 alongside the new PLA plant.

Corbion broke ground on 9 November 2016 for a 75,000 tons per annum PLA polymerization plant at its Rayong site in Thailand, with a reported capex of 140 million USD. Sulzer Chemtech supplies key equipment and start-up is targeted for 2018.