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Engaging for impact:
communities, employees,
customers

Punsook Market
Community Partnership
Association (CPA) The market is the platform where the local
products meet the public. It is organized by Dow
This is Thailand’s first cooperation between Thailand Group and our friends from 13 organi-
the five industrial enterprises: Dow Thailand Group, zations. In 2019, community enterprises earned
PTT Group, SCG, BLCP and GLOW. The mission is 3,182,774 baht from sales of their local products.
for the industry to devolope and take care of
local communities and protect the environment.
The five corporations share experiences and taking
care of each other so that the industry and the
communities can co-exist in a sustainable way. It
started as Collaboration then grew into Community
Partnership Association.

The highlights of the Association in 2019:
• Encouraging 76 facilities owned by the members
to become ECO factories.
• Organizing mobile medical care units for six
sub-districts: Map Ta Phut, Map Kha, Huai Pong,
Noen Phra, Ban Chang and Thap Ma. The units
served 1,769 local people.
• Total of 251 Bachelor degree scholarships for Dow market and Wednesday
young people in Rayong, and 440 scholarships for market
seven classes of nursing school were given. Increased income can help improve the
• With our support since 2016, a total of 29 quality of life in the community. Dow organizes
community groups have generated income of rent-free markets for local products where our
30.72 million baht. employees can shop. For each meet, over 30
• An environment monitoring network among the shops will be selected and rotated, so everyone
society’s factories was organized. The facilities, has equal access to the markets. The market is
communities and Industrial Estate Authority on Wednesdays and on the company’s quarterly
worked together to set up an emergency drill meeting event when many employees attended.
routine. Evacuation drills were done in the In 2019, the communities’ total sales were
communities of Klong Nam Hu, Nong Nan Yen, 378,488 baht.
Krog Yai Cha, Ta Kuan - Ao Pradu, along with
communities in Map Ta Phut.

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