Overview
The Australian Government is providing $110 million in grant funding from 2022-23 to 2025-26, to co-invest with privately owned wood processors to adopt new and upgraded wood processing facilities. Grants are available through the Accelerate Adoption of Wood Processing Innovation Program to upgrade or adopt innovative technology that will improve domestic wood processing efficiency and capacity – producing higher value products, using more from our wood resources and contributing to the industry’s capacity to reduce its carbon footprint.
Grants of between $1 million to $5 million are available to support privately owned wood processing facilities to:
· better use the available wood supplies
· increase production efficiency
· add value to existing products
· create new products, and/or
· reduce the industry’s carbon emissions.
The grant round opened on 22 December and closes on 28 February 2023 at 9pm (AEDT).
The program will offer co-funding of up to 40 per cent of total project costs, with the remaining 60 per cent to be met by the applicant. To find out more, visit the Community Grants Hub
In this toolkit you will find a variety of suggested content to help promote the program, including newsletter articles and content for your social media channels.
Content for publications
Articles:
Short article for your website or newsletter:
Privately owned wood processing businesses can now apply for up to $5 million grant funding to advance and innovate their facilities.
The Australian Government’s $110 million Accelerate Adoption of Wood Processing Innovation Program grant round is looking for applications that:
• better use the available wood supplies
• increase production efficiency
• add value to existing products
• create new products, and/or
• reduce the industry’s carbon emissions.
Applications are open for grants of between $1 million to $5 million (GST exclusive) for each application. The grant round will offer co-funding of up to 40 per cent of total project costs, with the remaining 60 per cent to be met by the applicant.
Applications close on 28 February 2023 at 9pm (AEDT). To find out more, visit GrantConnect.
Long article for your website or newsletter:
Privately owned wood processing businesses can now apply for up to $5 million grant funding to advance and innovate their facilities.
The Australian Government’s Accelerate Adoption of Wood Processing Innovation Program is providing $110 million in grant funding from 2022-23 to 2025-26 to co-invest with wood processors, to adopt new and upgraded wood processing facilities.
Applications are open for grants of between $1 million to $5 million (GST exclusive) for each application.
The grants will support the medium to long-term sustainability of wood processers by stimulating investment in upgrades to existing manufacturing lines and support innovation to diversify domestic products.
The grants will also support wood processing facilities to use innovative technologies in their production.
The grant round will offer co-funding of up to 40 per cent of total project costs, with the remaining 60 per cent to be met by the applicant.
Projects are not required to start in the 2022-23 financial year but must be completed by 30 June 2026.
Applications close on 28 February 2023 at 9pm (AEDT). To find out more, visit GrantConnect.