Plastics processing
Plastic processed products are used in household miscellaneous goods such as tableware,
interior miscellaneous goods such as chairs and accessories, other small articles and various
daily-use goods. They are also used in many of the electronic products, their parts and accessories.
Similar to a part of products in chemical products, increase in demand is estimated with
improvement in earnings of citizen and goods which are currently dependent on import from
neighboring countries such as Thailand are anticipated to be produced domestically.
The present plastic processing and production industry of Myanmar is around 1 hundred million
dollars based on plant shipment. However, Vietnam having advanced economic development is 10
times higher in terms of production standard than Myanmar based on shipment amount and similar
growth is anticipated in Myanmar also.
Moreover, the location of the same industry is of high importance from the point of contributing
to increasing manufacturing industry such as expansion of cluster formation of processing
technology such as injection molding to future precision molding or to molding technology of other
materials without stopping at increase of production amount or export amount of this industry