📋 Tender Overview
The Albanese Government is backing Australia’s emerging small and medium manufacturers, with the first grants beginning to flow from the $392 million Industry Growth Program (IGP).
First round funding is underway, supporting businesses from battery-making through to blueberry farming, with future rounds to be announced soon.
Designed to help small and medium businesses overcome barriers associated with scaling up, the program is growing manufacturing capabilities, creating stronger supply chains and delivering more secure well-paid jobs.
Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic announced the funding by officially opening battery manufacturing facilities at grant recipient Li-S Energy.
The company’s revolutionary technology is making low-weight, highly durable batteries suitable for the unstaffed aviation and defence industries.
