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Thailand’s Country Report
Exchange of Information on the progress report of ASEAN member countries in the wood-based sector
1. OVERVIEW OF WOOD-BASED INDUSTRIES
For the past few decades, wooden industries have developed and divided from typical sawmills into furniture factory, particleboard factory, MDF factory, plywood mill, paper pulp mill, etc. Sufficient of raw material, developing technology, skilled craftmanship, and suitable labor wages has turned Thailand to be one of the leading the production based exporter in Southeast Asia. Recently, Thailand has proven itself to be an important producer of wooden product throughout the world with full pride.
From the growth result of wooden industry occurred continuously, wood material are becoming shortage. In this period, some wood types such as rubberwood and eucalyptus have been slowly replaced those forbidden wood as the economic wood for Thai wooden and furniture industries. In the
future, which direction will the Thai wooden businesses go? If we separate the wooden business group classified by raw material used, there will be composed of 4 groups i.e. the first group are the sawing mill, wooden trade mill, and the small wooden products factory. The second group are the furniture production industries and value-added wood industries ranging from a small or complex factory to a medium sized factory. This two groups used both local and imported woods as raw materials.
The third group are the Pulp-Paper, Particleboard, Hardboard, & MDF industries which used wood from planted forest such as eucalyptus,
2. LATEST INFORMATION FROM ALL RELATED INSTITUTIONS IN REGARD TO STANDARDS AND CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT -
3. DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS STATUS OF STANDARD AND CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT IN THAILAND IN THE WOOD BASED SECTOR
I. Panel products
No Product Category
Standard Code
by Item Title of
Standards Reference
Status of (panels) and similar laminated wood (Hs.4412)
TIS 178-1995 Plywood ISO NEQ Voluntary
2. Fibreboard (Hs.4411)
TIS 180-1989
Fibreboards : Hard
Fiberboards (hardboards)
BS/CAN /ISO/JAS
NEQ Voluntary
3. Particleboar d and similar board (Hs.4410)
TIS 876-2004 Flat Pressed Particleboards
EN /JIS NEQ Voluntary
4 Particleboar d and similar board (Hs.4410)
TIS 878-1994 Cement bonded Particleboards : Highdensity
ISO NEQ Voluntary
5 Fibreboard (MDF) (Hs.4411)
TIS 966-2004 Medium Density
TIS 1107-1992 Plastics Laminated Plywood for concrete framework
II. Sawn Timber
No Product Category
Standard Code
by Item Title of
Standards Reference
Status of
NEQ Voluntary
4 (Hs.4407) TIS 424-1982 Structural Timber
BS NEQ Voluntary
5 (Hs.4407) TIS 497-1982 Kiln – dried sawn timber
BS / IS NEQ Voluntary
III. Flooring products
No Product Category
Standard Code
by Item Title of
Standards Reference
Status of groove wood flooring strips:nonteak
- NEQ Voluntary
2. (Hs.4409) TIS 994-1990 Wood flooring Strips with finger jointing :: nonteak
DIN NEQ Voluntary
3. (Hs.4409) TIS 2115-2002 Pre-finished multiply wood flooring
EN /JIS / ISO / DIN
NEQ Voluntary
4. (Hs.4409) TIS 2158-2004 Solid wood flooring Strips with finger jointing :: teak
IV. Other wood products (eg. Logs, Moulding, Furniture, Housing components, Packing materials etc.)
No Product Category
Standard Code
by Item Title of
Standards Reference
Status of adoption (IDT/MO D/NEQ)
Status of Implemen tation
1. - 2.
etc
4. TECHNICAL REGULATIONS
Thailand has no technical regulations for wood-based sector.
