{"id":800037,"date":"2026-07-13T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800037\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:44:09","slug":"surrey-manufacturers-receive-funding-for-automation-productivity-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800037\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey manufacturers receive funding for automation, productivity projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The funding, provided through the Regional Tariff Response Initiative, will support projects aimed at increasing production capacity, improving efficiency and strengthening supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Four Surrey-based companies will receive more than $8 million in federal funding to support automation, manufacturing expansion and productivity improvements.<\/p>\n<p>The funding, provided through the Regional Tariff Response Initiative, will support projects aimed at increasing production capacity, improving efficiency and strengthening supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Steel fabricator AI Industries will receive $1 million to install automated fabrication and welding equipment to increase production capacity and expand into new markets.<\/p>\n<p>Nanak Foods, which manufactures dairy-based foods, will receive $5.5 million to automate production lines and warehouse operations to boost capacity and support export growth.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering firm MTC Solutions will receive $630,250 to establish an advanced research and manufacturing facility focused on mass timber connection systems, while PowerHouse Building Solutions will receive $925,000 to improve productivity through warehouse automation and supply chain diversification.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government said the investments are intended to help businesses affected by trade disruptions improve competitiveness, reduce costs and access new markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funding, provided through the Regional Tariff Response Initiative, will support projects aimed at increasing production capacity, improving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-800037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}