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.

The Victorian Timber Innovation Fund is part of the Victorian Government’s Victorian Forestry Plan.

The Timber Innovation Grants Program provides grants for innovation that supports businesses to transition from native timber to plantation fibre or investigate manufacturing opportunities.

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

Applications for Round 1 closed Thursday, 31 March 2022.

Round 2 will open later in 2022.