The first plant - to be constructed in Hanoi - will be for the manufacture of plastic containers for beverage products, Sanan Angubolkul, chairman and president of the listed company, said yesterday.

The facility will cost between Bt250 million and Bt300 million and be located on a plot of more than 10 rai (1.6 hectares). Production is scheduled to commence at the end of next year.

The second factory will be for the production of melamine ware in Ho Chi Minh City.

For this facility, the company will find a new location to eventually replace its existing factory in the Vietnamese capital, as it is currently limited by the relatively small capacity of the plant, he said.

The new factory will require an outlay of about Bt200 million, with construction expected to be completed by the end of 2016.

"The new melamine factory in Ho Chi Minh City will have three times the manufacturing capacity of the existing one, which will continue to be run until the leasing contract expires in four years' time," he added.

Sanan said that about Bt50 million of the Bt1-billion investment budget would be allocated for the installation of 30 new machines at Srithai Superware's factory in India, while Bt450 million would be spent on the upgrade of its machinery and moulding facilities in Thailand.

Meanwhile, the company has slashed its overall sales target for this year from Bt15 billion to about Bt14 billion, due to the slowdown of the domestic economy. However, the revision will not affect the company's net profit, he stressed, adding that gross earnings this year and next will be similar - at 19-20 per cent of revenue.

"In 2015, we target 12-per-cent growth, driven positively by an increase in domestic and overseas sales. The contribution ratio between domestic and foreign sales is now 74:26.This includes the new plastic injection factory in India, which will complete construction next year and realise revenue at the end of 2015," said Sanan.

The company is also looking for a financial adviser to handle the listing of its subsidiary, Srithai Superware Vietnam, on the Stock Exchange of Thailand.

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Guest post by Amy Edelstein OUnI. Amy is cofounder of Emergence Education, is a gifted spiritual teacher, educator, and author committed to individual transformation and the evolution of our shared values. A Cornell University College Scholar, Amy has a background in Judaic philosophy as well as in Eastern thought. She studied with a number of preeminent Vedantic and Buddhist teachers in the early 1980s then began practicing evolutionary enlightenment with Andrew Cohen in 1986. Passionate about human development and the unfolding of our mystical stirrings within, Amy teaches a variety of transformational programs in the US and abroad. She is author of Love, Marriage & Evolution and loves taking long walks with her husband by their home in historic Philadelphia exploring life, liberty, and the pursuit of true happiness.

Presented at the Big I Conference, March, 2014

Evolutionary Spirituality: empowering our practice with the energy of the universe.

Shaping and reshaping, in wonder I am here! ~Goethe

Over the last decade, evolutionary spirituality has spread its canopy over many of our beliefs, mystical intuitions, and the quality of our relatedness. A marriage of science and spirit, some argue this path is as old as Jakob Boehm or as new as Barbara Marx Hubbard. Some circles credit Plotinus and in others Vedic scholars even lay claim to the origins of evolutionary sensitivities.

While the origin is debatable, and discerning where to place the marker on the stretch of historys timeline raises a number of fascinating and subtle metaphysical debates, for many practitioners now, without even knowing it, the sensibilities of an evolutionary worldview, and the exploration of the ultimately nondual nature between matter and consciousness, form and formlessness, emptiness and that which pervades and therefore contains all, shapes the contours of our spiritual path.

A Quick Peek at the Evolutionary Spirituality Pioneers:

The Grandfathers of the Evolutionary Spirituality Movement: Teilhard de Chardin, Sri Aurobindo Ghose

The Pioneers of Evolution & Evolutionarily Inspired Mysticism: Alfred North Whitehead, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Sanders Pierce, John Dewey, Charles Hartshorne

Contemporary Eco-Evolutionary Christian-Inspired Mystics: Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, Beatrice Bruteau

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Evolutionary Spirituality - Order of Universal Interfaith