Welcome to Bavaria.
Europe’s innovation hub for
Additive Manufacturing.
Highly qualified specialists meet industry partners.
Bavaria has historically a strong and innovative industrial sector, providing young companies andestablished corporations with opportunities for growth. Various factors play together to create anecosystem that is geared to help businesses grow on a global level:

Diverse Business Opportunities

Effective Networks

Business opportunities abound, notably due to the presenceof major corporations in all steps of the AM value chain(from manufacturer to user).

scientific publications in the fieldof AM throughout Bavaria (2022)#1 in Germany•

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4 Reasons
why the Bavarian
Additive Manufacturing Ecosystem
is world-class•(value added) from the manufacturingindustry in Germany (2022)#1 in the EU••

18% of GDP

Bavaria provides a varied number of networking
platforms that drive cross-industry innovation.
Examples: Cluster New Materials, Additive
Manufacturing Coordination Office, Cluster
Automotive, MAI Carbon

Access to Talent
Bavaria hosts a highly diverse workforce in the sector and provides anideal breeding ground for young talent thanks to its world renowned
state universities and universities of applied sciences: LMU, TUM & FAU.

for48%

of German companies 3D–printing has
an enormous impact on their business.
Ultimaker (2020)

Glocal Perspective
Both global multinationals and local
champions use Bavaria as a springboard
to enter international markets and tocollaborate with partners cross-border.

Ranking competitively worldwide in Additive Manufacturing (CHE Ranking; QS World University Ranking).

The potential that additive manufacturing has to offer:

General Lattice, EOS, andDyeMansion join Forces withWilson to create Industry’s
first 3D-printed Airless Prototype Basketball.

BMW uses ExOne’s binder
jet 3D printing technology
for a more sustainable manufacturing process.

Trumpf provides Airbus
Helicopters with metal Additive Manufacturing machines
for their electric-powered
CityAirbus concept.

3D Systems uses its pointof-care technologies to create
3D-printed Cranial Implants
with Kumovis.

We help you to benefit from the strong bavarian ecosystem.

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112 4Clusters from the “Bavarian Cluster Initiative” which boost innovation and economic growth by promoting collaboration
between companies, research & development partners in the high tech industries.

2 393 4XNUE5Additive Manufacturing
Experience Center (AMEC)

7870+1627384951067 85 6911MUCScience, research andinnovation institutes.

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10 11 12 131436 Fraunhofer Institutes
and Project & Research Groups
16 Max-Planck-Institutes
6 Helmholtz Institutes
8 Leibnitz Institutes
12 Regional Institutes
3 Associations of Industrial Research

Universities and Universities
of Applied Sciences.

6 Universities
14 Universities
of Applied Sciences

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