Manufacturing Grants in Canada in 2026
Accelerate your growth with manufacturing grants. Automate, innovate, export.
Manufacturing grant programs are designed to support businesses in the manufacturing sector in Canada, by providing them with grant funding to help them grow and innovate. The program aims to strengthen the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector in Canada and create new opportunities for businesses in this sector. The program is funded by the Government of Canada and is administered by the Canadian government. Manufacturing Grants Program is an important resource for Canadian manufacturing businesses, providing them with the support they need to remain competitive in the global.

FedDev Ontario — Economic Development Initiative (Southern Ontario) — Not-For-Profit

BDC Financing — Buying a Business Loan

MAPAQ — Food Processing Program — Subcomponent 4.1 - Competitiveness of slaughterhouses and cheese dairies

INVEST North Program — Investment — Grow Stream

iVisit

FAQDD — Écoemballage+ Stream 2

Support program for economic development projects (PAPDE) — Component 2 : Support for the development of strategic sectors and regions
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Doing business in French

Fabrication Process Development Challenge

Financial assistance program aimed at optimizing Quebec's network of eco-centers

MAPAQ — Food Processing Program — Subcomponent 4.2 - Regional, sectoral and environmental challenges facing slaughterhouses and cheese dairies

Quebec City — Major projects

Aid measure for the decarbonization of Quebec's industrial sector (MADI)

Ontario Made Manufacturing Investment Tax Credit (OMMITC)

Support for innovation projects

Zero Emission Vehicle Awareness Initiative — Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles and Clean Fuels

OCI — Digital Modernization and Adoption Plan program (DMAP)

Energy Innovation Program — Off-Site Construction Challenge

Investment and Growth Fund

Capital Retrofits

Energy Management Information Systems (EMIS)

Business Scale-up and Productivity (BSP) in the Prairie provinces

CRIAQ — INNOV-R

The Initiative for Sustainable Aviation Technology (INSAT)

Youth Initiative to Combat Climate Change - Education and Awareness
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Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) — British Columbia

Innovation Program — Stream 1 – Support for mobilising projects

PME MTL — Call for projects : Innovation

Net Zero Accelerator Initiative

BC Agriculture and Food Export Program

Productivity-Skills


FTQ — Bioenergy

Circular Economy Fund

Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) — Northern Ontario

WILWorks program — Student Work Placement Program

Future Fuels Challenge

CRIAQ International

REGI — Targeted Manufacturing Initiative for Northern Ontario

Innovation Scouting Fund

Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) — Northern Canada

Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) — Prairie Provinces

Regions and Rurality Fund (RRF) - Component 1 - Support for regional outreach

Water reduction program for paper mills

Strategic Response Fund (SRF)

Healthy Eating Program Stream 1 – Support for the implementation of diagnostic studies

CED Aerospace Regional Recovery Initiative

CRIBIQ — PARTENAR-IA — Industry

Zero Emission Vehicle Awareness Initiative — Light-Duty Vehicle — For-profit

Food self-sufficiency – major investment projects in bio-food companies
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Eco-design incentive bonus

BDC Financing — Equipment Purchase Loan

Alberta Carbon Capture Incentive Program (ACCIP)

Biomed Propulsion Program

Trade Disruption Customer Support program

Regional Defence Investment Initiative (RDII) in the Prairie provinces

Recyc-Québec — Beverage Container Recycling — Stream 2

Recyc-Québec — Beverage Container Recycling — Stream 1

Recyc-Québec — Beverage Container Recycling — Stream 3

Youth Initiative to Combat Climate Change - Entrepreneurship and Green Economy

Grant for a circular economy assessment

Advanced Manufacturing program

Duo grand V

Regional Tariff Response Initiative (RTRI) — Southern Ontario

FAQDD — Reducing air and noise pollution – Component 1

Trois-Rivières — Revitalization of certain industrial sectors

FAQDD — Reducing air and noise pollution – Component 2

Financial assistance for a standard project to implement GHG emission reduction measures

Small business mitigation for drugs and medical devices

Business Scale-up and Productivity in British Columbia

Apprenticeship Incentive Grant (AIG)

Food Safety and Growth Initiative

Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways Program (SREP) – Indigenous-Led Clean Energy stream

Guidance grants

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Buy BC Partnership Program


Wood Construction Innovation Program

Food Industry Personality of the Year 2026


RCM Vallée-Du-Richelieu — Creavenir

OVIN — Electric Vehicle (EV) — Stream 1

The Foodpreneur Scale-Up Program


Canada–Germany 2026 Quantum collaborative industrial research and development call for proposals

C/AV and Smart Mobility — Stream 1

Powering the future: Solid-state hydrogen storage for military platforms

SMART Cluster's 9th call for proposals – advanced manufacturing

Electric Vehicle (EV) — Stream 2

Alizés Awards

MRC Témiscamingue — Business Succession Loan

MRC des Chenaux — Young Promoters Fund

Innovation program — Call for mobilizing projects on the development of tomorrow's transport technologies

REGI — Jobs and Growth Fund — CED (QC) — Indigenous stream

MRC des Chenaux — Chenaux Local Social Economy Fund (FLÉS)

MRC Abitibi-Ouest — Digital Transition Fund

Northern Ontario Development Program — Community Economic Development

Mosaic Fund

BDC Financing — Business purchase or transfer loan
