Manufacturing PA Industrial Resource Center Program Grant

Manufacturing PA Industrial Resource Center Program Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
Last Updated: March 21, 2026

Summary

The Manufacturing PA Industrial Resource Center Program, managed by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, aims to enhance the competitiveness of small and medium-sized manufacturers. By adopting modern manufacturing techniques and providing essential resources, this program supports a network of Industrial Resource Centers throughout Pennsylvania. The funding can be utilized for personnel expenses, operational needs, and various initiatives to strengthen the manufacturing sector's capacity and promote growth in key industries.

Overview

Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development The Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) works every day to ensure Pennsylvania is a premier state to do business, where we adopt and innovate the next generation of breakthroughs in a diverse mix of industry clusters, where we cultivate a resilient economy, and where we invest in our people and our communities to build a stronger Pennsylvania that works for all the residents, workers, businesses, and entrepreneurs that call our Commonwealth home. Manufacturing PA Industrial Resource Center Program The Manufacturing PA – Industrial Resource Center (IRC) program helps manufacturers compete more effectively through the adoption of modern manufacturing philosophies, techniques, and technologies. The program supports a network of Centers that serve as resources for technology implementation in every region of the Commonwealth and serves the state’s small and medium-sized manufacturing industries. Uses The grant funds may be used for reasonable salary and other personnel expenses, leased space for operational purposes, travel, administrative, equipment, supplies and other expenses associated with the development and delivery of IRC services.

Eligibility

We've imported the main document for this grant to give you an overview. You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The seven, current Industrial Resource Centers. Eligible Uses of FundsFunding is provided to the Centers for the goal of primarily serving small to mid-sized manufacturers across the commonwealth. The Centers will deliver a wide array of outreach and services designed to strengthen the capacity of manufacturers to compete in the global economy and to encourage growth/expansion.In addition, IRCs will direct appropriate resources to the priority industries identified in the Ten-Year Strategic Plan for Economic Development in Pennsylvania: Agriculture; Energy; Life Sciences; Manufacturing; Robotics and TechnologyFunding may be utilized to sustain existing IRC programs as well as to develop new and creative initiatives to meet the evolving needs of the manufacturing community.