The factories were classified into 21 industrial groups including crop products, food, drinks, clothes, woodwork, paper, chemical products, machines, electronic devices, and automobiles.

Entrepreneurs are meanwhile expressing concern that Thailand’s subdued economic situation in 2019 would continue in 2020.

Thai Plastic Industrial 1994 PCL managing director Teerachai Teerarujinon said the future of the industry was uncertain with the risk still high, and the matter of most concern in the next two or three years would be labour security, since a majority of labourers from neighbouring countries that Thailand depends on would expectantly return to their homeland if the Thai economy got worse.