Timber Innovation Grants Program

To assist businesses directly affected by the Victorian Forestry Plan to:

• explore opportunities to process or manufacture using plantation timber feedstock
• develop new products using plantation timber
• explore processing, harvest and haulage of alternative fibre
• investigate downstream manufacturing opportunities using alternative fibre.

We plan to release further rounds of the Victorian Timber Innovation Fund during 2022.

The Victorian Timber Innovation Fund is part of the Victorian Government’s broader $120 million Victorian Forestry Plan Transition Package that focuses on retaining industry and community capability and jobs.

The Timber Innovation Grants Program will provide grants of up to $100,000 for innovation that supports businesses to transition from native timber to plantation fibre or investigate manufacturing opportunities.

Eligible businesses will be required to demonstrate the project’s ability to address each of the Timber Innovation Grants program core criteria as outlined in the guidelines.

Through an Expression of Interest Process eligible businesses will be required to demonstrate the project’s ability to address each of the VTIF core criteria as outlined in the guidelines.

Timber Innovation Grant Program Q & A's