The government will this year invest five million euros in the 3D printing hub, which will help to get the project going, before contributing a further 23 million euros by the year 2020, when the hub is due to open. The hub will occupy a space of more than 10,000 square feet at the Campus Diagonal-Besós, part of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona. In an effort to merge the respective talents and resources of the public and private sectors, the governing body (“Generalitat”) of Catalonia has decided to launch a multi-million-euro Global 3D Printing Hub that, in the words of Catalan business minister Jordi Baiget, will “put Catalan industry at the forefront of the European and global 3D printing industry.”

The new additive manufacturing facility will encourage the adoption of industry 4.0 technology and is supported by HP, Renishaw, Ricoh, and other companies.Ĭatalonia's new Global 3D Printing Hub will be built at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona The government of Catalonia in Spain has said it will invest 28 million euros in the creation of a Global 3D Printing Hub.

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