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BG CONTAINER GLASS to enter different business
segments across the
BG CONTAINER GLASS Asean region.
Last year, Bangkok Glass
TO BUILD 400 T/D FURNACE confirmed its intention of
becoming a “total glass
BG Container Glass an inadequate supply of Supasin said. solutions provider”.
(BGC), a subsidiary of natural gas. BGC currently operates Thus BGC was
Bangkok Glass, is to The Ratchaburi plant five glass-container established as Bangkok
build a 400 tonnes a day will be completed and factories in Pathum Thani, Glass’s latest subsidiary
furnace in Ratchaburi, ready to start operations Ayutthaya, Khon Kaen, and in charge of
Thailand at a cost of in the third quarter of Rayong and Prachin Buri, the production and
Bt 2 billion (USD 58.8 next year. “As we want to with combined production distribution of glass
million). supply our glass container capacity of 3,335 tonnes containers, both in
Supasin Leelarit, Bangkok products and services to per day or 1.2 million Thailand and
Glass executive vice our customers, we have tonnes a year (around 4.5 elsewhere
president for the group, to locate our factories in billion bottles a year). in the Asean
said that the factory various areas where our The company currently region.
would support greater customers’ plants are controls 39% of
domestic demand for located. For example in Thailand’s glass-container
glass containers. Khon Kaen and Prachin market, which is worth Mr. Supasin
Leelarit,
It will also help overcome Buri, our factories are more than Bt 30 billion.
Executive Vice
an energy shortage in located next to our Supasisn said Bangkok President
the company’s factory in customers’, such as Boon Glass was ready to move Group
Rayong, which is facing Rawd and Kratingdaeng,” forward with its strategies Commercial

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