subject: Order A Serious Shortage Of Electrical And Electronic Industry In Thailand Dying - Electrical, [print this page] According to Thailand "World News" reported on March 20, Thai Industrial Court Chairman of the Group of electrical and electronic industry survey drops Ye said the global economic crisis spread to the electrical and electronics industry have a serious impact, in November last year, the business who have begun to reduce capacity utilization.
Order to reduce 20-50% because the operators need to dismiss workers and reduce overtime (OT). If the next 3-6 months, can not received the order, or the situation had not improved, probably need to reduce working hours, or
Layoffs . At present the electrical and electronic industry workers about 58 million people.
Assessment of electrical and electronic exports this year, flat with last year, has not yet received orders for the first quarter, but forecast Q2 will begin to order that the Thai economy should expand the export market to the continued growth of countries such as China, ASEAN, India and Middle East countries, etc..
Survey drops Jesus said the government should step up the promotion of financial institutions to provide low-interest loans for the above industries, to increase working capital. Meanwhile, the poor quality of work units should strictly control imports of goods, and to encourage people to use domestic products. Total value of imports of electrical appliances in Thailand each year 2,000 million baht, a variety of zero-input
Fitting The value of 12,000 million baht. Thai commodity prices due to higher imports.
If the government taxes for manufacturers, from 3% to 0.3-0.5%, production costs could be reduced, prices will come down to urge the public to increase use of domestic products, thus increasing employment opportunities.
Thai Rubber Association, said Chairman of the Prince guess ,3-6 months of the rubber orders in the first quarter falls 30%. Forecast for this year rubber exports will decrease with the global economic slowdown, exports of 2.7 million tons from last year, down to 2.4 million tons, so that total exports of 2,600 million baht last year, reduced to 2,000 million baht.
Vice-chairman of the Thai Industrial tower hide, said the current capacity utilization of the productive sector only 57%, must be closely tracked the trend this year, the production of 3-4 months, worried that capacity utilization will be further below 50%, I am afraid there will be More business closure and layoffs.
Currently a number of industry capacity utilization rates are lower, and reduce the recruitment of new staff of about 30-40%. Among them, the electronics industry, the number of new staff employed fell in more than 68%, 27.8% decline in automobile industry, petrochemicals fell 32%, 36.6% and reduced processing of agricultural products
Service To shrink by 19.6%, resulting in 50-60 million this year, new graduates could not find work. He considered that the Government has also failed monetary policy effective, the financial institutions to provide loans and guarantees slowdown.
Tower hide that, at present all kinds of enterprises are beginning to close, because it could not bear the cost burden. Although the central bank policy interest rates have been reduced to 1.5%, but deposit and lending rates to 5-6% gap between the fact that the banks provide loans slowed, leading to the introduction of the financial policy can not fully effective.
Thailand Automotive Industry Group hospital spokesman Surapong acknowledged that the situation is not optimistic about the auto industry, especially automotive parts industry, predicted output will be reduced by up to 40%, will continue to track the development of the situation.
However, car manufacturers predict another 6 months, the market situation may be improved, as countries have introduced various measures to promote economic development.
