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.

OVIN — TalentEdge Fellowship
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Ascension competition
- Maximum amount : 60,000 $
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Transportation and warehousing

Newfoundland and Labrador green technology tax credit
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Employee Training Program
- Maximum amount : 13,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Construction

Ontario — Meat Processors Capacity Improvement Initiative
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Alberta Innovates — Agri-Food and Bioindustrial Innovation Program
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing

Food & Beverage Financing
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade

NRC — Canadian Centre for Housing Technology
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Real estate and rental and leasing

- Maximum amount : 6,000,000 $
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

CleanBC Industry Fund - Emissions Performance Request for Proposals
- Maximum amount : 25,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Eurogia Cluster's 30th Call for proposals – Clean Technologies
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Europe Market Development Program
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Industrial Energy Efficiency Program
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

Small Distillery Program
- Maximum amount : 220,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Humami Center — A structured approach to innovation and commercialization based on the specific needs of institutions
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Retail trade

NRC — Wind tunnel testing facility
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

PacifiCan — Regional Economic Growth through Innovation — Regional Innovation Ecosystems
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Regional Economic Growth Through Innovation & Southern Ontario Prosperity Program
- Minimum amount : 125,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Podium Mines
- From $20,000 to $50,000
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing

- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

OVIN — TalentEdge Internship
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program (APIP)
- Minimum amount : 50 $
- Up to 12% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Alberta — Value-Added Program
- From $50,000 to $250,000
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

EDC — Foreign Exchange Facility Guarantee
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

CRIBIQ — PSO-Bioproducts and bioprocesses
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
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NGen — Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Value Chain Program (EVMP)
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

NGen — Feasibility Studies
- From $100,000 to $500,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Canadian Cleantech for Mining Mission to Australia and Indonesia
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Agri-Tech Innovation Initiative : Stream 3 – Agri-Tech Energy Costs Savings
- Maximum amount : 100,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Clean Hydrogen Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Breakthrough Energy Solutions Canada
- No Condition
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

BC Small Business Venture Capital Program
- Maximum amount : 400,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

RDAR — Irrigation Targeted Call
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) — Capital Investment Projects
- Minimum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Advanced Manufacturing Investment Strategy (AMIS)
- Maximum amount : 10,000,000 $
- Up to 30% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Seafood Expansion and Market Access Program (SeaMArk)
- Maximum amount : 99,900 $
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Project support program for the Critical and Strategic Minerals Scientific Research Network
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration

Energy Innovation Program — Carbon capture, utilization and storage RD&D
- No Condition
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

ERA — Expanded Technologies Pilot
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Utilities
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

NGen — Advanced Manufacturing Technology Program
- From $600,000 to $3,200,000
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Manufacturing

CFIN — Foodtech Frontier 25
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Accommodation and food services

New Construction Commercial and Industrial Energy Efficiency Program
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade

Skills Development Fund (SDF) — Training Stream
- No Condition
- Construction
- Manufacturing

FortisBC — Custom Performance Program
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Other services (except public administration)

Critical Minerals Innovation Fund
- Maximum amount : 500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Innovative Enterprise Program
- Maximum amount : 38,000 $
- Up to 95% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

PrairiesCan — Regional Economic Growth through Innovation — Regional Innovation Ecosystems (RIE)
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Lac-Mégantic Economic Assistance Fund (FAELM)
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Accommodation and food services
- Other services (except public administration)
- Public administration
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Skills Development Fund (SDF) — Capital Stream — GROW Pathway
- Up to 49% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Health care and social assistance

Relève Alimentaire Québec Award
- From $5,000 to $10,000
- Up to 60% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Accommodation and food services

CQRDA — PARTENAR-IA — Business
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Construction
- Manufacturing

B.C. — Agri-Business Planning Program
- From $500 to $22,500
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

British Columbia interactive digital media tax credit
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services

Ontario Automotive Modernization Program (O-AMP)
- Maximum amount : 150,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing

NRC — Advanced Electronics and Photonics Research Centre
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

Manufacturing and Processing Assistance - Capital Loan
- Up to 80% of project cost
- Manufacturing

EDC — Export Guarantee Program
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Finance and insurance

CQRDA — Providers-Clients
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Quebec International — Selling and Exporting — Set your sights on the world
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Finance and insurance
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Centre for Women in Business
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Other services (except public administration)

INVEST North Program — Investment — Launch Stream
- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Saskatchewan Product Development Program (PDP)
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Atlantic Investment Tax Credit
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

Innovation Canada — Innovation Advisors in Yukon
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade

NGen — Pilot Projects
- From $50,000 to $200,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Nova Scotia Seafood and Agriculture Strategic Investment Fund
- From $500,000 to $1,125,000
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing

Business Growth — Attracting and retaining talent
- Maximum amount : 250,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

ÉCLO Regional Fund – Stream 3
- Maximum amount : 5,000 $
- Up to 75% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Other services (except public administration)

CCC — U.S. DoD Prime Contractor
- No Condition
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

- Maximum amount : 200,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

Geniuses in business
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Educational services
- Health care and social assistance

PRIMA — Call For Projects In Artificial Intelligence And Quantum Technologies
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 35% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries

Compétivert — Investment Matching Solution
- From $1,000,000 to $5,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
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Yukon Manufacturing and Processing Profits Tax Credit
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

InnoFood — Food innovations for a sustainable future
- Maximum amount : 1,500,000 $
- Up to 40% of project cost
- Manufacturing

Women in Skilled Trades Initiative
- Maximum amount : 3,000,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing

- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Manufacturing

- From $250,000 to $2,000,000
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

SME in action
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

OVIN — R&D Partnership Fund – Advanced Charging and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Stream
- Maximum amount : 1,000,000 $
- Up to 33% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 25% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Arts, entertainment and recreation

AgriScience Program — Projects – Not-for-profit
- Up to 70% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Emerging Innovators Challenge
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

Alberta Innovates — Clean Resources
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

Oil and Gas Processing Investment Incentive
- From $10,000,000 to $75
- Up to 15% of project cost
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Utilities
- Manufacturing

Site Readiness Program
- Maximum amount : 25,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

SMART Cluster’s 8th call for proposals – advanced manufacturing
- No Condition
- Manufacturing

Canada-Saskatchewan Job Grant (CSJG)
- From $1,000 to $10,000
- Up to 66% of project cost
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Finance and insurance
- Professional, scientific and technical services

BDC Capital — Intellectual Property-Backed Financing
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services

Infrastructure de recherche et développement
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Information and cultural industries
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

CCC — International Prime Contractor
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Accelerate Program for Quebec Emerging Companies
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Health care and social assistance

- Maximum amount : 2,000 $
- Up to 10% of project cost
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing

Whalesafe Gear Adoption Fund
- No Condition
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Educational services

Agri-Food Energy Cost Savings Initiative
- Maximum amount : 300,000 $
- Up to 20% of project cost
- Manufacturing

NRC — Climatic testing facility
- No Condition
- Manufacturing
- Transportation and warehousing
- Professional, scientific and technical services
- Public administration

Pierre Péladeau Scholarships
- Maximum amount : 75,000 $
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Manufacturing
- Retail trade

AgriMarketing Program — National Industry Associations
- Maximum amount : 2,000,000 $
- Up to 50% of project cost
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting
- Manufacturing
- Wholesale trade