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Tycoons Worldwide Group (Thailand) Plc.

Production capacity, quantity and utilization rate in the year 2016- 2018

2018 2017 2016

Full production capacity (Unit: Ton/year)
- Wire rod 360,000 360,000 360,000
- Annealed wire 144,000 144,000 144,000

- Screw 28,514 28,514 36,000
- Bolt 36,000 36,000 36,000
Real Production (Unit: Ton/year)
- Wire rod 286,357.56 249,731.95 190,624.54

- Annealed wire 108,784.58 113,293.68 127,433.41
- Screw 11,573.40 9,984.21 7,754.71
- Bolt 41,963.78 35,638.77 38,746.35

% Utilization rate
- Wire rod 79.54 69.37 52.95
- Annealed wire 75.54 78.68 88.50
- Screw 40.59 35.02 21.54

- Bolt 116.57 99.00 107.63

2. Raw material

Billet and wire rod
TYCN purchases raw materials mainly from TY. In 2018, 60% of raw materials were
from TY, while 40% were from China. With advanced manufacturing process, TY is
capable to produce not only regular low carbon billets but also low alloy billets of high
quality, which meets TYCN’s high standard and enables TYCN to produces industrial
steel products and reinforcing bars in accordance with new TISI’s standard announced
in December of 2016.

Steel scrap
The main raw material for TY’s steelmaking is steel scraps. In 2018, 90% of the steel
scraps were from domestic market. Thailand is a large automotive producer in the
world. The steel scraps that TY purchases are majorly from automotive industry which
comes with high purity and high quality of scraps. As a result, TY produces billets with
high quality and consistency.

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