Foshan ceramics company plans to establish overseas production base in Thailand

On the 13th, the reporter was informed that the Foshan Ceramics Association is currently leading the cooperation between a Thai company and a listed company in Guangzhou to buy 7,000 mu of land in Thailand. The plan will be used to build the "Thailand Ceramics Base in Thailand", which will start construction in March next year. Investment promotion.

According to reports, the base is located 100 kilometers away from Bangkok. At present, the project is in the preparation phase, accepting enterprises to enter the way to buy land. If it is completed, it will become the first production base of Foshan Ceramics in overseas, mainly to attract Foshan ceramic enterprises.

Dai Yimin, chairman of the Foshan Ceramics Association, said that in the multi-national anti-dumping containment of Foshan ceramics, the Southeast Asian market accounted for a relatively small ratio of China's imports and exports, and the demand for building materials in the area itself has increased year by year, using Thailand as a production base. Directly radiate the entire Southeast Asian market, at the same time can also use this as an export destination to avoid anti-dumping in Europe and the United States.

In the context of frequent anti-dumping, the market in some of the hardest-hit areas such as the EU has experienced a serious decline. According to the latest data provided by the Municipal Bureau of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, from January to October this year, ceramics exports from Foshan reached US$2.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 19.8%, but exports to the EU were US$170 million, a decrease of 20% year-on-year.

“There will certainly be many ceramic companies interested in the past.” According to Tan Haoshen, executive director of Visa Ceramics, many Tao enterprises in Foshan are trying to open up overseas markets. After losing some of the EU market due to anti-dumping, South America, Southeast Asia and Africa It is a place where companies are preparing to deepen their cultivation. However, the South American market is now beginning to anti-dumping. The African market is still relatively limited in local consumption capacity, so the Southeast Asian market is even more important.

Of course, there are also many companies that will consider whether to set up factories in the past based on their own characteristics. Ye Xiaodong, general manager of Foshan Mona Lisa Industrial Co., Ltd., bluntly stated that the local political situation is volatile and the production materials and technologies are not necessarily better than the domestic production base. For the time being, Mona Lisa does not temporarily consider peripheral production. base.