However, after the Asian financial crisis erupted in 1997, some 30,000 Thai firms went bust, and land in industrial parks wouldn't sell. With heavy interest payments, the debts that Amata carried rose to as high as B500-600 million. The company almost went under and survived only by selling off shares it owned in a power plant.
沒想到 1997 年亞洲金融風暴驟起，泰國 3 萬家企業倒閉，工業區土地滯銷，銀行利息沈重，安美德公司的負債一度高達五、六十億泰銖，幾乎撐不下去，後來還是靠著賣掉電廠股份勉強熬過去。