Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand

Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (I-EA-T)

As a state enterprise under the Ministry of Industry, the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand is responsible for the development and establishment of industrial estates, where factories for various industries are orderly and systematically clustered together. With industrial estates as an implementation tool, I-EA-T also serves as a governmental mechanism to decentralize industrial development to provincial areas throughout the country.

I-EA-T Responsibilities

1) To establish industrial estates and to encourage and support the private sector or government agencies in establishing industrial estates
2) To provide public utilities and infrastructure, as well as to offer relevant services essential for industrial operations
3) To encourage and support the private sector to invest in public utilities and infrastructure or to offer relevant services necessary for industrial operations
4) To provide an environmental management system, along with an industrial accident prevention and relief system
5) To grant permission and/or approval for business operations in an industrial estate and to provide privileges, incentives and other facilities associated with industrial operations

One Stop Service

I-EA-T established a ‘One Stop Service Center’ (OSS) to provide a complete beginning-to-end service solution, ranging from land purchase and rental, appropriate factory location suggestions, application approval such as VISA and work permit for expats and ownership of the land and the issuance of certificates required for factory establishment, to the development of joint-management industrial estates with I-EA-T.