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THAI FIRMS INVESTING IN VIETNAM PLASTICS
It also has majority stakes in four other firms producing plastic household utensils and packaging, Viet-Thai Plastchem Joint Venture Company, TPC Vina – Plastic & Chemical Corp Ltd, Chemtech, and Minh Thai Plastic Material Co Ltd.
It has a 20 per cent stake in Binh Minh Plastic JSC and nearly 25 per cent stake in Tien Phong JSC, who together hold half the market share in the plastic building materials market.
SCG and many other Thai firms are continuing to acquire stakes in plastics companies.
Tran Viet Anh, chairman and general manager of Nam Thai Son Company and deputy chairman of the HCM City Rubber - Plastic Manufacturers Association, said the country has nearly 3,000 plastics companies, 99.8 per cent of them private.
Thai companies are primarily aiming at the top 100 firms, he said.
Lacking the confidence to take on the new rivals, in many cases showing signs of declining production and business capacity, many domestic firms agree to sell out when foreign investors offer high prices for their stakes, he said.
Ho Duc Lam, chairman of the Viet Nam Plastics Association, said by increasing investment in the country's plastic industry, Thai firms hope to both exploit the lucrative domestic market and take advantage of free trade agreements that Viet Nam has signed.
The plastics industry is one of the fastest growing in Viet Nam, expanding annually at 16-18 per cent in 2010-15, Lam, who is also chairman of Rang Dong Plastic joint Stock Company, said.
But with the annual plastic consumption per capita in Viet Nam at just 41kg, much lower than in other countries, the prospects remain huge, he said.
Anh said Thai firms only pay one per cent or even zero per cent interest on bank loans for certain projects, while Vietnamese firms have to pay 6-7 per cent, making it hard for them to compete with the Thais.
The HCM City Rubber- Plastic Manufacturers Association urged domestic firms to strengthen co-operation among themselves.
To support domestic companies, it said HCM City should create an area exclusively for plastic firms and develop a production chain model to reduce costs.
Source: VIR
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