GFPT has confirmed that its chicken slaughterhouse and processing plants in Samut Prakan province are still operating normally, even though flooding has caused slight delays in transporting goods to ports and affected some employees whose homes were inundated. Weera Thityangkuruwong, manager of the investor relations department, said demand in the main export markets of Japan, the United Kingdom, Europe, Malaysia and China remains steady and in line with the company's plans. For the third-quarter 2026 outlook, the company sees growth compared with the very high base of the third quarter of 2025 as potentially difficult, but growth versus the second quarter of 2026 is still possible. As for the fourth quarter of 2026, which is the high season, the situation will need to be reassessed because flooding could dampen tourism and domestic consumption, leaving overall 2026 earnings likely to be flat. Meanwhile, the new chicken slaughterhouse and cutting plant in Chonburi province, which sits upstream in the processing chain and supports a production capacity of about 150,000 birds per day, is preparing for a test run in early 2027, or the first quarter of 2027, and is expected to begin commercial operations around the second quarter of 2027, before the company moves ahead with building a cooked-food processing plant with a capacity of about 30,000 tons per year. GFPT currently has slaughterhouse capacity of about 150,000 birds per day but slaughters only about 100,000 birds per day, while its joint venture GFN slaughters about 100,000 birds per day, giving the group total chicken slaughter of roughly 200,000 to 260,000 birds per day. On the weaker baht, the company views it as a slight net positive, because export revenue received in US dollars exceeds the value of imports of animal feed raw materials, which are also priced in US dollars.
GFPT Public Company LimitedNew Chonburi slaughterhouse and cutting plant prepares for test run in early 2027 and commercial operations around Q2 2027, expanding capacity.
