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<p>The industry backed Additive Manufacturing strategy identifies that the UK’s High
Value Manufacturing Sector can capture over £3.5bn per year (Gross Value Added) for
the UK of the rapidly growing global market for additive manufacturing products (3D
printing) and services by 2025, supporting 60,000 jobs in the knowledge economy and
generating new, highly skilled employment opportunities. The industry led Made Smarter
Review also identifies the contribution of digitally enabled technologies to manufacturing-including
additive manufacturing- to the UK economy to be as much as £455 billion over the next
decade.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Industrial Strategy, we are working closely with
UK industry to create the right conditions for competitive, world leading manufacturing
businesses to flourish and grow across the UK. Government recognises the importance
of 3D printing and additive manufacturing and since 2012 The UK’s EPSRC and Innovate
UK’s combined investment in additive manufacturing R&D, including capital grants,
has been well over £200 million, helping to develop and maintain UK capability in
additive in the UK. In addition we have invested over £300m in the High Value Manufacturing
Catapult, including establishing the National Centre for Net Shape and Addictive Manufacturing
housed in the Manufacture Technology Centre in Coventry. Its aim is to develop production-ready
additive manufacturing processes, to overcome barriers to wide-scale adoption, and
to work on legislative and standardisation issues to support the commercialisation
of the innovation and new technologies such as 3D printing.</p>
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