Transforming Queensland Manufacturing Grants Program - Round 2

The TQM supports eligible Queensland-based manufacturing SMEs to improve manufacturing productivity and competitiveness through investment in advanced manufacturing equipment.

Grants are available for:

•  Advanced manufacturing equipment with Industry 4.0 / 5.0 features
• Software purchasing to support system integration and manufacturing process improvement; e.g. enterprise resource planning (ERP), materials requirements planning (MRP), manufacturing execution systems (MES).

The project must support one or more of the following objectives:

• Facilitate pathways to export opportunities
• Reshore or onshore manufacturing activities currently undertaken interstate or overseas
• Improve manufacturing productivity and competitiveness
• Stimulate private sector investment and create jobs.

Grants of between $100k and $1.5 million are available. Funding must be matched with a minimum 50% co-contribution.

Applicants must:

• Have a majority manufacturing turnover or be part of a structure that has majority manufacturing turnover
• Have, or be part of a structure that has, between 5 and 200 full time equivalent (FTE) employees.
• Be implementing the project in Queensland
• Have an existing manufacturing presence in Queensland, employ at least 5 FTEs in the state, and have operated in Queensland for at least the past 3 consecutive years
• Be the manufacturing entity that will own any equipment to be purchased under the project.

Round 2 applications open soon.