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SCGP (SCG Packaging)

A daily watch on trade rules, export-market regulation, rival moves, customer demand and input costs for SCGP's ASEAN packaging business.

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Last checked: 24 Aug, 19:16

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Trade & tariffs

because your Q2 release credits rising exports from Indonesia and Vietnam for part of the quarter's growth — and US trade rules just repriced every Thai-made shipment

US Section 301 tariff of 12.5% on Thai goods took effect July 24

SCGP's exporter customers in food, appliances and electronics now price US orders against this duty — where US buyers trim Thai orders, packaging volumes move with them. Customers weighing production between Thailand (12.5%) and Indonesia (10%) can be followed: SCGP runs plants in both.

Federal Register 91 FR (GovInfo), USTR Section 301 Notice of Actions · 2026-07-28✓ Source verified

Following since 22 Aug · 3 checks · surfaced 22 Aug

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Thai ministry: 2,120 product lines escape new US tariff; exporter support readied

Over half of Thai export value to the US — ICs, HDDs, key farm goods — is excluded, so the tariff's bite on packaging demand is narrower than the headline rate suggests. The soft loans and logistics support the ministry is preparing target exactly the exporter accounts SCGP supplies.

Kaohoon International · 2026-07-24✓ Source verified

Following since 22 Aug · 3 checks · surfaced 22 Aug

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Rules in export markets

because consumer-goods and food packaging led the demand your Q2 release reports, and much of that packaging leaves ASEAN filled — subject to EU and US market rules

EU PFAS limits on food-contact packaging apply from August 12 — no grace period

Food-contact packaging at or above the PFAS thresholds can no longer be placed on the EU market, filled imports included — packaging made before August 12 gets no pass. SCGP's food-packaging lines and its Thai food-exporter customers now need PFAS test data and conformity papers to keep EU-bound packs moving.

Food Packaging Forum · 2026-08-12✓ Source verified

Following since 22 Aug · 3 checks · surfaced 22 Aug

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EU adopts EUDR scope update; paper rules land December 30 for large operators

SCGP's virgin-fiber paper and board sold into the EU falls under EUDR due-diligence from December 30, 2026, and these acts fix the product list and the IT system SCGP's EU customers will file statements through. The clarified exemption for packing material narrows what SCGP must document — packaging sold as a product stays in scope.

European Commission — DG Environment · 2026-07-13✓ Source verified

Following since 22 Aug · 3 checks · surfaced 22 Aug

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Competitors

because your filings show packaging operations across Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia — the same markets where Japanese and global packaging groups are expanding

Oji packaging-heavy segment profit jumps to ¥5.8bn; overseas units back in the black

Oji — already building a ¥16bn aseptic-carton plant in Dong Nai and running board operations across ASEAN — swung its Household & Industrial Materials segment from ¥0.2bn to ¥5.8bn operating profit and added a Vietnam packaging company to the group. A recapitalized Japanese rival is pushing deeper into SCGP's fastest-growing market.

Oji Holdings — 1st-quarter FY2026 Summary of Financial Business Results · 2026-08-05✓ Source verified

Following since 22 Aug · 3 checks · surfaced 22 Aug

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Amcor closes FY2026 at $23.5bn sales with ~$240m of Berry merger synergies

The world's largest consumer-packaging group finished its first full Berry year with sales up 57% and roughly $240m of synergy benefit already in adjusted EBIT — scale economics SCGP's polymer packaging business meets head-on when bidding for multinational FMCG accounts in ASEAN.

Amcor plc — Q4/FY2026 news release · 2026-08-12✓ Source verified

Following since 22 Aug · 3 checks · surfaced 22 Aug

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Customer demand signals

because your Q2 release ties the profit rebound to consumer-goods and food packaging demand across ASEAN, so customer volumes and export flows are your leading indicator

Thai June exports up 20.8%, but farm and fruit shipments fall a second month

The box demand behind the boom splits: industrial exports (+25.1%) keep electronics-grade packaging humming, while agricultural and agro-industrial shipments fell 6.5% with fresh fruit down 18% — softer near-term demand for SCGP's fresh-produce corrugated even as processed-seafood packs (+17.5%) firm up.

Trade Policy and Strategy Office, Thai Ministry of Commerce · 2026-07-24✓ Source verified

Following since 22 Aug · 3 checks · surfaced 22 Aug

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CPF holds THB 147bn Q2 revenue as swine glut cuts profit 61%

Thailand's biggest food producer kept revenue near flat but took a 61% profit hit from collapsed swine prices — a bellwether packaging buyer under margin pressure at home, which typically hardens purchasing terms. Its bright spot, 8% revenue growth in Vietnam, points the same direction as SCGP's own strongest packaging market.

Kaohoon International · 2026-08-14✓ Source verified

Following since 22 Aug · 3 checks · surfaced 22 Aug

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Raw materials & energy

because fiber-packaging margins move with recovered-paper and energy prices — cost lines your own quarterly MD&A tracks

Thai power tariff set at 3.89 baht for September bills, down from 3.95

Grid power is a cost line SCGP's own quarterly MD&A tracks for its Thai mills. The regulator trimmed the September average tariff to about 3.89 baht per unit — six satang below the 3.95 set for the September-December period — by moving public-lighting costs off user bills, holding SCGP's Thai energy costs flat-to-lower into Q4.

The Nation (Thailand) · 2026-08-12✓ Source verified

Following since 23 Aug · 2 checks · surfaced 23 Aug

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The desk's diary

Investigations, kills, watches — day by day.

24 Aug

  • InvestigatedThird run (Monday evening): re-checked all 9 existing items and worked 16 fresh leads across the five sections for the August 23-24 window. Every item stands — the Section 301 notice (12.5% on Thai goods, effective July 24), the 2,120-line exemption coverage, the PFAS thresholds and the no-grace-period rule, the EUDR scope acts and the December 30 date, the Oji and Amcor results documents, the TPSO June report, the CPF coverage and the September power-tariff article. No corrections, postponements or restatements found on any source.
  • NoteRe-check method, for the record: the three IR PDFs (Oji, Amcor, TPSO) returned raw binary to the fetcher tonight rather than text, so they were re-read page-by-page from the archived copies in the source pack. Tonight's live downloads are byte-for-byte the same size as the archives, and the figures re-read from them match the recorded notes exactly: Oji's Household & Industrial Materials segment 0.2 -> 5.8 with segment overseas (2.2) -> 0.3; Amcor's 'Net sales of $23,506 million were 57% higher than last year' and the '$240 million' Berry synergy line; TPSO's 20.8 percent June export growth, agricultural and agro-industrial -6.5 percent, fruits -18.0 percent, canned and processed seafood +17.5 percent.
  • Surfaced0 new items. A genuinely quiet Monday: nothing in the 24-48h window cleared the bar of a fresh, verifiable event from a primary or major-press document. The desk is unchanged apart from re-check counts — which is the honest reading of the day, not a gap in the work.
  • KilledKilled 8 leads: the Thailand-US technical talks on the remaining 28% of tariff lines (best sources still August 16-17, outside the window — but the talks are now dated August 27-29, so this moves up the watch list); the Commission's own August 11 'new EU rules on packaging enter into application' notice (13 days stale, and it duplicates the ground the PFAS item already holds — kept as corroboration, not surfaced); Nine Dragons Paper for the third run (still no fresh primary; FY results due September); North American containerboard price increases of $80-140/ton effective September 1 (July 29 article, North America only — not SCGP's cost or price geography); the Vina Kraft VND604m Vietnam box plant (SCGP's own investment, circular for this desk, as with the World Cup lead on day one); SCGP executive appointments effective August and January (PDPA — this desk covers organizations, never individuals); Asian packaging trade-show and market-forecast items (vendor marketing and analyst forecasts, not events); and an Indonesian recovered-paper and box-demand market note (the underlying price assessments sit behind a paywalled index with no fetchable primary, and market-distress framing around Indonesia is out of bounds for this desk under the booth rule — SCGP's Indonesian operations are a completed turnaround).
  • NoteDay-one human-verifier flag (2) is RESOLVED. The raw-materials because-line assumed SCGP's own quarterly MD&A tracks recovered-paper and energy costs; it does, verbatim from the Q1/2026 MD&A: 'On the cost side, Q1/2026 presented favorable conditions, supported by sustained recovered paper (RCP) prices and energy costs from business continuity management and optimization.' The because-line stands as written.
  • NoteDay-one human-verifier flag (1) is still OPEN but narrower. CPF's own release page again would not render to the fetcher, so the 'record-high Q2 revenue' claim still cannot be reconciled directly against the SET-filed figure of THB 147,186 million (-0.3% YoY). One new data point against a quarterly sales-revenue reading: CPF's Q2 2022 revenue was reported at THB 155,996 million, above this quarter — so 'record high' is likely a different measure (half-year or total revenue including other income), not quarterly sales. That is an inference from a 2022 release, not a reconciliation; the item's caveat stays as written until the SET filing is read.
  • NoteNEW DISCREPANCY on the power-tariff item, flagged rather than acted on. The item's source (The Nation, August 12) still reads 3.89 baht per unit for September, down six satang, with public-lighting costs coming off 'the electricity tariff paid by general users' — unchanged, so the item stands. But two other outlets now report the ERC's confirmed figure differently: one has the ERC keeping the Sept-Dec average at 3.95, another has the confirmed reduction at 3.86 with about 0.10 baht of public lighting removed from HOUSEHOLD bills. Both are paywalled (HTTP 402) and could not be fetched, so nothing was changed on the item. This matters for the booth: if the reduction is scoped to residential meter types (MEA 1.1/1.2, PEA 1.1.1/1.1.2), the item's line about SCGP's Thai energy costs going flat-to-lower into Q4 overreaches, because SCGP's mills bill as industrial users. Tomorrow: get the ERC's own resolution.
  • WatchTomorrow, in priority order: (1) the ERC's own Thai-language resolution, to settle 3.89 vs 3.86 vs 3.95 and whether the public-lighting removal reaches industrial users — this is a live correction risk on a surfaced item; (2) the BOT MPC decision on August 26, still unheld and unpublished tonight (BOT's calendar confirms MPC 4/2026 for that date); (3) the TPSO July trade report, still unpublished tonight, due around August 25-26 and the first tariff-affected export reading; (4) the Thailand-US technical talks now dated August 27-29 on the remaining 28% of Section 301/232 lines, with about 72% already exempted; (5) Nine Dragons' FY results in September.

23 Aug

  • InvestigatedSecond run (Sunday evening): re-checked all 8 existing items against their source documents — the Section 301 notice (12.5% on Thai goods, effective July 24), the 2,120-line exemption coverage, the PFAS August 12 application, the EUDR acts and the December 30 date, the Oji and Amcor results PDFs, the TPSO June report and the CPF coverage all stand unchanged; no corrections, postponements or restatements found. Then worked 10 fresh leads across trade, EU rules, competitors, demand and raw materials for the August 22-23 window.
  • Surfaced1 new item, filling the raw-materials section: the Thai power-tariff ruling for September bills — average tariff down to about 3.89 baht per unit as public-lighting costs come off user bills (The Nation, August 12). Not a weekend event; surfaced because it resolves day one's standing watch for Thai power-tariff rulings.
  • KilledKilled 5 leads: a BOT MPC preview for the August 26 meeting (no fresh, well-sourced preview in the window — the latest substantive documents found are the April hold decision and older minutes; moved to watch), Thailand's late-August technical talks on the remaining 28% of US tariff lines (The Nation, August 16 — outside the 24-48h window with no new primary; watching), the TPSO July trade report (not yet published, due around August 25-26), Nine Dragons Paper again (still no fresh primary — FY results due September; only broker notes moved), and the post-application PPWR/EUDR commentary wave (law-firm explainers only, no new regulator document).
  • WatchSunday run — a thin news window, as expected. This week: BOT MPC rate decision August 26, the TPSO July trade report (the first tariff-affected export reading), the Thailand-US technical negotiations on the remaining 28% of tariff lines, and Nine Dragons' FY results in September.

22 Aug

  • InvestigatedFirst run: built SCGP's profile from its Q2 2026 results release (revenue THB 32,454M, profit THB 2,304M +128%, Indonesia turnaround, Vietnam growth, THB 748M corrugated expansion in Ho Chi Minh City), then worked 16 candidate leads across trade, EU regulation, competitors, demand and input costs.
  • Surfaced8 items survived verification against primary or major-press documents actually opened this run: the US Section 301 Federal Register notice (GovInfo), Thai Commerce Ministry exemption coverage, EU PPWR PFAS application, the EUDR scope acts, Oji and Amcor results documents, the TPSO June trade report, and CPF's Q2 coverage.
  • KilledKilled 5 leads: Nine Dragons Paper (no fresh primary — latest results are February 2026 interim; FY results due September), Oji's Dong Nai carton-plant announcement as a standalone item (November 2025, stale — kept only as context), FIFA World Cup packaging-demand angle (only source was SCGP's own release — circular for this desk), federalregister.gov as a source URL (bot-blocked; replaced with the GovInfo mirror of the same notice), and CPF's own press release as a source (page would not render to the fetcher; replaced with exchange-press coverage).
  • WatchRaw materials and energy stayed empty today: recovered-paper (OCC/RCP) and containerboard price assessments sit behind paywalled indices and no regulator or company primary document moved this window. Watching for SCGP's Q3 MD&A cost commentary, Thai power-tariff rulings and any RCP-related customs move.
  • NoteHuman verifier: two flags worth a re-check — (1) CPF's own release headlines record-high Q2 revenue while exchange press reports revenue down 0.3% YoY; reconcile against the SET filing. (2) The raw-materials section's because-line assumes SCGP's quarterly MD&A discusses recovered-paper costs; confirm wording from the latest MD&A PDF.