- CEO
- Phattra Sahawat
- Full Time Employees
- 2,113
- Sector
- Distribution services
- Industry
- Wholesale distributors
- Address
- 2/1 Wongsawang Road Bangkok BM Thailand 10800
- IPO Date
- Sep 14, 1995
- Business
- Vanachai Group Public Company Limited engages in the production and distribution of sustainable wood-based panels and related products in Thailand and internationally. Founded in 1943 and headquartered in Bangkok, the company manufactures medium-density fiberboards (MDF), particleboards, oriented strand boards (OSB), plywoods; melamine-faced panels, polyester and veneer on MDF boards, paper overlay on MDF; shuttering boards, moulded doors, melamine doors, doorskins; wall decorative panels, laminate flooring, flooring accessories; glue and impregnated paper products. It operates factories in Chonburi, Saraburi, Surat Thani, and Rayong, with the Surat Thani facility featuring five MDF lines, one particleboard line, and one OSB line, making it Asia's largest wood-based panel plant; the company also generates electricity from renewable biomass sources and provides transportation services. Vanachai adheres to a zero-waste, no-forest-wood philosophy, utilizing agricultural and wood waste for production with no carbon emissions. In 2019, it constructed a biomass power plant in Surat Thani; in 2020, it added an OSB plant there; recent related party transactions include lease amendments with Maeyai Co., Ltd. in November 2024 and disclosures involving Firstwood Co., Ltd. and Woodland Co., Ltd. through 2025.