Funding to enhance the resilience of Australia's Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) market

You can apply if you:

• have an Australian business number (ABN)
• are registered for the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

You must also be one of the following entities:

• an entity incorporated in Australia and a trading corporation, where your trading activities:
  • form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation’s overall activities as to merit it being described as a trading corporation; or
  • are a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation
• an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust, where your trading activities:
  • form a sufficiently significant proportion of the corporation’s overall activities as to merit it being described as a trading corporation; or
  • are a substantial and not merely peripheral activity of the corporation.

You can’t apply if you:

• an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s list of Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme
• an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)
• income tax exempt
• an individual
• partnership
• a Regional Development Australia Committee
• unincorporated association
• trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
• a Commonwealth, State, Territory or local government body (including government business enterprises)
• a non-corporate Commonwealth entity.

Partner with other organisations

You can partner with one or more other organisations that also meet the eligibility criteria. But you must decide who the lead organisation is.

The lead organisation must fill out the application form.

If we give your group the grant, the lead organisation:

• signs the grant agreement
• is responsible for making sure your group follows the rules in the grant agreement.

You must complete your project by 30 April 2026.

Your project must:

• be located in Australia
• be a new project, which has not already commenced
• be for domestic manufacture and supply to the Australian market of TGU, TGU-equivalent product or DEF from domestic feedstocks (e.g. natural gas, ammonia, CO2), or imported feedstocks which are reliably available in Australia
• produce TGU which meets the ISO 22241 specification for the production of DEF, or;
• produce a TGU-equivalent product that demonstrates it can be used commercially as a DEF either, as specified in compliance with ISO 22241, or as certified by OEMs for use as a DEF.

You can apply for a grant up to $16.15 million.

You can use this grant funding for:

• plant and equipment
• labour and labour on-costs
• contract expenditure.

See detailed eligible expenditure in grant opportunity guidelines.