The application intends to complement the previously funded regional fund project ¿3DPrint¿. The focus will be shifted in the new project, from physical equipment investments, to strengthening the collaboration structure around a national arena in West Sweden for 3D printing in metal. The target group for the project is the manufacturing industry of the region. The project includes outreach activities to engage companies to participate in a number of demonstrator projects, evaluation of project proposals, clustering of companies, actual implementation of these sub-projects in collaboration with identified companies and dissemination of results from the subprojects.