Industrial resilience
Flexible, local production instead of long supply chains. For example: replacing offshore sourcing with on-demand robotic fabrication in the region.
Additive Manufacturing Campus Metropolitan Region Amsterdam
Building the conditions for advanced manufacturing to scale.
We connect manufacturing hubs, industry, knowledge institutions and public partners, and turn real production experience into shared capability, investment and policy influence.
AM Campus MRA is not one building. It is a coordinated regional network of operating hubs, fieldlabs and partners with one shared goal: stronger additive manufacturing capability in the Netherlands and Europe.
12+Active facility partners
60+Connected companies and experts
500+Practitioners reached
40%Target share of regional manufacturing needs met by local supply chains
Why it matters
Europe needs manufacturing capacity close to home.
European industry is moving toward local resilience, circular materials and digital production. That shift is too risky and too expensive for most companies to make alone. Shared infrastructure makes it viable.
Technology adoption
From experiment to everyday production. For example: moving 3D printing out of the lab and into certified industrial parts.
Ecosystem coordination
Policy, research and industry pulling in the same direction. For example: turning EU Green Deal targets into low-emission materials on the factory floor.
Our approach
From fragmentation to capability.
AM Campus MRA is an independent regional platform. We do not run a single facility. We coordinate the ecosystem around five pillars.
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Regional strategy
Define which additive manufacturing capabilities the region needs over the next five to ten years.
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Network coordination
Connect hubs, companies, schools, researchers and public partners into one working network.
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Shared validation programmes
Solve industrial challenges together instead of through isolated, one-off projects.
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Collective representation
Give the Dutch AM ecosystem a stronger voice in European programmes, standards, funding and industrial policy.
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Evidence-based advocacy
Use lessons from physical hubs such as 3D Makers Zone to build the case for public investment.
Coordination
AM Campus MRA
Regional platform
Execution
Physical hubs
Applied production environments, such as 3D Makers Zone
Digital
Digital workflows
Design, applications and digital manufacturing
Knowledge
European networks
Programmes, standards and knowledge exchange
Partners
Ecosystem partners
Materials, robotics, research, public sector and industry
Who we serve
A clear route in, whoever you are.
Industry, researchers, public bodies and technology providers each come with a different question. We match it to the right hub, partners and programme.
Manufacturing companies
Adopting new production technology alone is slow and risky.
Validate robotic processes and circular materials in a shared environment before you invest.
Start a validation projectApplied researchers
Promising research often stops at lab scale.
Connect your work to industrial testbeds for real technical and economic validation.
Explore collaborationPublic partners
Policy goals need practical execution.
Turn regional innovation and sustainability policy into industrial capability and jobs.
Discuss a programmeTechnology providers
Proving new systems to industrial buyers is hard.
Integrate and demonstrate your machines or software in active validation tracks.
Propose a technologyHow it works
From challenge to production route.
Every project follows the same structured path, so results can be reused across the network.
What you get
- Validated pilot results
- Technical learnings
- Partner matches
- Production concepts
- Input for procurement and funding
- Skills and training formats
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Define the challenge
Map the technical bottleneck or scaling problem.
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Build the coalition
Bring in the right technology partners, researchers and public stakeholders.
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Run the pilot
Validate the material, process or workflow in a shared physical testbed.
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Document the learning
Capture technical findings, constraints and next steps.
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Prepare to scale
Turn the pilot into a production, procurement or partnership route.
Validation tracks
Test under real industrial conditions.
Through our partner hubs you get access to production environments where technologies are tested, optimised and validated.
Large-scale robotic fabrication
Multi-axis robot cells for large-format polymer and structural parts. Example: taking a recycled-polymer furniture component from design file to robotic toolpath and production test.
Concrete and paste-based systems
Printing with cementitious and other paste materials. Example: testing material behaviour, print stability and motion limits for low-carbon mixes.
Hybrid robotic workflows
Additive and subtractive in one workflow. Example: combining multi-axis material deposition with CNC milling to produce finished custom tooling.
Bio-circular materials
Extrusion with recycled and bio-based feedstock. Example: validating local bio-polymers and wood-waste composites for sustainable regional procurement.
Have a part, material or process you want to test?
Request track accessPolicy to production
From ambition to industrial reality.
We translate policy goals into concrete validation programmes, and validated results back into procurement and supply chains.
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Strategic goal
Policy
The ambition, such as circular economy targets or regional resilience.
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Industrial challenge
Translation
The specific material or production problem to solve.
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Validation track
Applied pilot
Testing the solution with partners in a real industrial environment.
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Execution
Procurement and scale
The validated capability enters public tenders and private supply chains.
Application domains
Where local capacity matters most.
We focus on sectors where regional manufacturing directly strengthens resilience in the Netherlands and Europe.
Robotics and automation
Robotic work cells, hybrid workflows and multi-axis toolpaths that scale beyond the pilot.
Built environment
Printed building modules, public space elements and structural parts in low-carbon concrete and composites.
Energy infrastructure
Prototypes and local production of components for energy storage, solar and grid infrastructure.
Circular materials
Moulds, jigs and fixtures from recycled plastics and bio-composites that replace metal tooling.
Ecosystem
A community that builds together.
AM Campus MRA brings together companies, knowledge institutions and public partners. Through events, pilots and programmes we share what works and scale it across the region.
Working with
Roadmap
A ten-year development path.
AM Campus MRA is a long-term initiative to structurally strengthen manufacturing capability in the region.
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2025 to 2027 Now
Foundation and pilots
Build the founding network, set up validation tracks and run the first industrial pilots.
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2027 to 2031
Scaling and integration
Scale regional production capability, embed skills programmes and deliver public-private manufacturing projects.
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2031 onwards
European node
Establish AM Campus MRA as a mature node in Europe's distributed manufacturing infrastructure.
Ready to validate, connect or scale?
Have a manufacturing challenge or a technology that belongs in this ecosystem? Let's talk.
For industry
- Bring your manufacturing challenge to shared facilities
- Validate new production processes and robotic workflows
- Test sustainable materials before you invest
For research, public and technology partners
- Connect research to an active testbed
- Link policy goals to industrial practice
- Demonstrate scalability and economic viability