Quick News
SCCC digitises cement plant with Cisco, Fujitsu input
Siam City Cement Public Co Ltd (SCCC) says it has fully digitised operations at its No 3 cement plant in Saraburi province with a system put in place by Cisco as the technology provider and Fujitsu as system integrator.
The plant-wide wireless connectivity comes as part of an overall SCCC strategy for real-time tracking of employees, contractors, and assets and inspection process digitisation to raise productivity and help improve safety with the plant’s heavy equipment. The efforts fall under what the company calls its Industrial Internet of Things strategy.
Robinson posts 31% profit boost after restructuring
The operator of Robinson department stores boosted profit 30.7 per cent to Bt2.8 billion for last year.
Alan Thomson, president of Robinson Public Co Ltd, said the company was reaping the benefits of a decision to divide the operations into our businesses: department store business, shopping malls, management of imported brands and the management of two department stores in Vietnam.
“The company operates 26 branches of the department stores, as well as 18 lifestyle shopping malls locally. Robinson will open the 19th shopping mall, Robinson Lifestyle Phetchaburi, on May 19,” Thomson said. “For the imported brand management business, the company is licensed to be exclusive distributors at Robinson branches for Just Buy, Payless Shoesource, Babyshop, as well as House Brand. The brand constitutes four product categories: home products, health products, gentlemen and ladies’ fashion, and children’s fashion. Two additional product categories with more than 400 items for bathroom and kitchen and dining products will be available in July.”
Hot weather pushes up egg prices as other items stable
Market inspections by the Commerce Ministry have confirmed that most goods prices are steady, with only chicken eggs up slightly because of the hot weather affecting production, the National News Bureau of Thailand reports.
The ministry’s permanent secretary, Wiboonlak Ruamrak, said close monitoring of consumer goods in markets and retail stores had helped keep vendors in line and prices steady.
She said market conditions had kept the cost of pork, chicken and beef mostly unchanged but noted that chicken eggs had gone up by 20 satang.
Pork has stayed in the range of Bt135-Bt140 per kilogram, red meat between Bt135 and Bt145 per kilo, and whole chickens are Bt70-Bt75 each.
ARDA, Mitr Phol to develop agriculture technology
The Agricultural Research Development Agency and Mitr Phol Group have signed a collaborative research and development agreement for sustainable development of agriculture technology.
Aiming at achieving a practical approach, commercial viability and value addition to agricultural products, while enhancing the capacity of the agricultural-research workforce in Thailand through academic and research network collaboration, the R&D collaboration covers three projects.
These are paddy-fields management by crop rotation and soil rehabilitation, bio-control development, and bio-fertiliser development.
The first paddy-management project is planned to be implemented this year by growing soybean after rice harvesting, utilising modern agriculture technology at Chum Phae and Phu Pha Man district in Khon Kaen province with a budget of more than Bt5.4 million.
