Thailand's Boonrawd Brewery Group has solved its year-long glass bottle shortage through a THB 2.45 billion investment in its subsidiary Bangkok Glass Ltd, it was reported in The Nation. Bangkok Glass's capacity expansion project won Board of Investment (BoI) incentives on 3 February 2005. The locally-funded investment is intended to give Bangkok Glass a larger capacity than the country's current leader in glass bottle production, Thai Glass Industry Plc. Industry Minister Pongsak Ruktapongpisal said the BoI granted the incentives to ensure that domestic glass bottle output would meet rising demand. Following the expansion, the output capacity of Bangkok Glass will increase by 144,000 tonnes per annum to 657,000 tonnes, making it the largest Thai glass bottle maker ahead of Thai Glass Industry with 543,000 tonnes a year.
