AusIndustry has announced the first 13 grant recipients from the Clean Technology Investment Program, CTIP that opened in March 2012. The grant funding aims to help manufacturers reduce their energy bills. Read the media release.
Five grants from the Clean Technology Investment Program and eight from the Clean Technology Food and Foundries Investment Program will support energy saving and low pollution projects.
For more information about the $800m CTIP program for Australian manufacturers.
To get your application form for from AusIndustry click on the application form page.
This program is a competitive grant program. Don’t leave it to the last minute, find out how Treadstone can help you win your funding. Call us on (03) 9008 5937.
| Applicant | Grant amount | Location | Project description |
| CSR Building Products Ltd |
$1,007,733 |
Bradford Insulation, Ingleburn, NSW | Install gas-fired cogeneration system. |
| CSR Building Products Ltd |
$250,000 |
Tile production site, Vermont, Victoria | Install high temperature off-take on kiln and utilise waste heat to feed tunnel dryer, reducing gas consumption. |
| G.H. Varley Pty Ltd |
$143,886 |
Tomago, NSW | Replace inefficient air conditioning and introduce voltage regulation equipment to increase plant efficiency. |
| Amcor Packaging (Australia) Pty Ltd |
$45,000 |
Box making plant, Scoresby, Victoria | Install voltage optimiser units, reducing electricity consumption. |
| Amcor Packaging (Australia) Pty Ltd |
$44,240 |
Aluminium can manufacturing, Canning Vale, WA | Replace DOL and DC motors across aluminium can body makers’ coolant pumps and conveying systems with AC motors, improving energy efficiency. |
| Bega Cheese Ltd |
$282,619 |
Two sites at Bega, NSW | Seven sub-projects including implementing variable fan speeds in cool rooms, improving efficiency of chilled water heat exchanger, heat recovery, lighting upgrades and variable head pressure controls. |
| Fonterra Brands (Australia) Pty Ltd |
$152,881 |
Milk processing plant, Wagga Wagga, NSW | Replace outdated refrigeration system with energy efficient water-cooled ammonia refrigeration. |
| Crafty Chef Pty Ltd |
$499,999 |
Food production facility, Emu Plains, NSW | Replace blast freezer system with industrial spiral freezer system using ammonia refrigerant, reducing energy consumption. |
| D.T.R. Holdings Pty Ltd |
$300,000 |
Food product manufacturing, Bundaberg, Queensland | Replace High Pressure Processing unit with new, more efficient system. |
| De Bortoli Wines |
$4,829,405 |
Five wine-making sites in NSW, Queensland and Victoria | Energy reduction project across wine making, packaging, warehousing and site services areas through using grid power more efficiently, replacing old equipment and use of solar technology. |
| Rickety Gate Trust |
$67,887 |
Winery, Denmark, WA | Install 22.8 kW solar power system with battery backup. |
| Matilda’s Winery Pty Ltd |
$40,643 |
Winery, Denmark, WA | Install 23.7 kW solar power system. |
| Ferngrove Vineyards Ltd |
$446,390 |
Winery, Frankland River, Western Australia | Install solar power system. |