{"id":186028,"date":"2025-12-16T06:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/186028\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T06:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:05:11","slug":"thailands-scg-eyes-10-cut-to-capital-spending-as-chinese-exports-hurt-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/186028\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand&#8217;s SCG eyes 10% cut to capital spending as Chinese exports hurt profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/materials\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Materials<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Country&#8217;s leading chemical supplier &#8216;sailing through a big storm,&#8217; CEO says<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20251215N SCG logo\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">SCG&#8217;s profit plunged\u00a0in 2024, hurt by overproduction of competing Chinese goods. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)<\/p>\n<p>KENYA AKAMA and MAYUNE HOTTA<\/p>\n<p>December 16, 2025 05:16 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BANGKOK &#8212; Thailand&#8217;s largest materials group, SCG, will reduce planned capital expenditures by up to 25 billion baht ($794 million) over the next few years as it weathers competition from Chinese products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Materials Country&#8217;s leading chemical supplier &#8216;sailing through a big storm,&#8217; CEO says SCG&#8217;s profit plunged\u00a0in 2024, hurt by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9055,138,1288,4444,3588,219,3214,2753,14046,111,139,69,9324,117287,8262,36658],"class_list":{"0":"post-186028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-9055","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-capital","11":"tag-chinese","12":"tag-cut","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-exports","15":"tag-eyes","16":"tag-hurt","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-profits","21":"tag-scg","22":"tag-spending","23":"tag-thailands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}