A brief review of the Thai kenaf mill industry/ Chien Chu..[et al.]
ผู้แต่งร่วม: Chu, Chien
| Kamolratanakul, Nipon | Krairit, Ampika | Wake, Norman L. | Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research
Language: English ชื่อชุด: Res. Proj. no. 1/8 Rep. no. 1ข้อมูลการพิมพ์: Bangkok : Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research, 1968 รายละเอียดตัวเล่ม: 43 p.หัวเรื่อง: Kenaf | Millsสารสนเทศออนไลน์: Click here to access full-text สาระสังเขป: (1) The kenaf mill Industry in Thailand has development rapidly in recent years, currently providing a market for about 100,000 tonnes of home-grown kenaf and saving over 400 million required for import of gunny-sacks. Indeed, the industry is now earning foreign exchange by the export of an increasing number of gunny-sacks -almost 50 million baht worth in 1967. The industry is, moreover, a major employer of labour, our recent survey showing almost 12,000 were engaged. The industry, too, is heavily decentralized, the ten existing mills being located from Bangkok into the far north-east of Thailand.สาระสังเขป: (10) The survey showed considerable yariations in costs amongst individual mills and private mills appear significantly more efficient; Total costs, labour productivity, ability to use lower grades of fibre and export performance all showing up more favourably than in the government sector. However, one of the goverment mills, at least, is quite efficient. Age of equipment is probably a major underlying cause.สาระสังเขป: (11) The main problems of the industry arise chiefly from poor reeting and unreliable grading coupled with the inherent harder nature of kenaf fibre. Difficulties also occur because equipment is often not up to date or otherwise inefficient; moreover, there is a high rate of labour turnover and absenteeism in some mills. - Authors, modified.สาระสังเขป: (2) Of the tem mills, four are government-owned and operated and the remaining six, which have been established subsequently are privately owned. Establishment of additional mills and expansion of existing mills have recently been forbidden, capacity being considered ample for foreseeable needs.สาระสังเขป: (3) The industry is virtually a mono-productindustry, gunnysacks being by far the major product.สาระสังเขป: (4) Our survey indicated total current capacity is 73 million sacks p. a. of which 80 per cent was in use. Not all mills, however, work on a 3-shift, 6-day week : if they did, output could increase by almost 40 per cent. Stocks of sacks held by mills at the end of May, 1968, were equivalent to only one month's production.สาระสังเขป: (5) There is evidence of recent "cut-throat" competition in the industry, prices for rice-sacks having been lowered drastically early in 1968. To stabilize the market, all ten mills have joined together in the Siam Gunny Sack Co., which will set prices for local sales as well as act as export agent.สาระสังเขป: (6) Exports of new empty sacks accounted for 13.6 per cent of industry sales in 1967 while in the first five months of 1968, this proportion rose to 27.6 per cent, and is expected to increase further as government mills also commit an increased proportion of their out put to export. Indonesia received about 80 per cent of Thailand's gunny-sack export in 1966 and 1967. Customers further afield are exected to buy larger quantities.สาระสังเขป: (7) The bagging of rice accounts for some 80 per cent of local sales of sacks, many of which are eventually exported. In fact, export as filled sacks accounts for the greater part of total production : 53 per cent in 1967.สาระสังเขป: (8) Our survey showed that kenaf was accounting for 38 per cent of total cost of sack production but this was at a time of low kenaf prices. A more normal proportion for materials cost would be almost 60 per cent with a conversion cost of 18 per cent and a fixed cost of 24 per cent. From consideration of a "model" mill, profit could be of the order of 30 per cent on invested capital.สาระสังเขป: (9) Compared with a mill in Taiwan using only jute, cost of production in Thailand is only about one half. Compared with large Indian jute mills, however, labour productivity in Thailand may be much lower.
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