Bangkok--5 Oct--German International Cooperation
Picture shows (from left)
Mr. Trisak Lertsakwattana, Director General, The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI)
Mr. Pongsak Chajiamjan, Senior Executive Vice President and Acting Managing Director, SME Bank
Mrs. Sutthiya Chantawarangul, Programme Officer, Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Thailand
Mr. Patima Jeerapaet, President, Thailand Automotive Institute (TAI) and
Mr. Torsten Fritsche, Director of Resources Efficiency and Energy, German International Cooperation (GIZ)
at the kick-off event of the Greening Supply Chains in the Thai Auto and Automotive Parts Industries Project . The project was launched to improve the production processes in the Thai Auto and Automotive parts industries of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the environmentally friendly resources management and efficient use of energy. The project targets the training and practice in the 500 Thai auto industries by the end of project in January 2015.
The project receives funding of almost 1.6 million EUR (THB 60 million) from the SWITCH-Asia Programme of the European Union (EU) and it is jointly co-funded and implemented among five partners including German International Cooperation (GIZ), Thailand Automotive Institute (TAI), Thai SME Bank, the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) and the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Center on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP).