The Industrial Manufacturing and Critical Supply Chains Priority Area is intended to ensure effective implementation of the NRFC’s sub-funds – the Economic Resilience Program, the Net Zero Fund, and the Forestry Growth Fund.
The Priority Area reflects opportunities to support Australia’s critical supply chains affected by market disruption and support sectors which have the greatest opportunity for decarbonisation.
Potential areas of focus
Under this Priority Area, the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation may invest in industries that underpin Australia’s critical supply chains, and industrial subsectors with the greatest opportunity and need for decarbonisation.
This includes the manufacturing and processing of:
- alumina and aluminium
- cement and concrete
- chemicals and plastics
- food and beverages
- iron and steel
- glass
- pulp, paper, and paperboard
- fertilisers and agricultural protection chemicals.
It also includes:
- logistics (such as distribution)
- metals refining and smelting
- waste and resource recovery
- fuel production, fuel additives, fuel derivatives, and fuel storage (including alternative fuels such as low carbon liquid fuels)
- building or maintaining facilities for these products or activities.