The Eruptor
A dynamic new model for advancing American manufacturing
“We need a new model that enables upstart manufacturing innovators to bring great new products to market without large upfront investments while strengthening our communities.”
The Eruptor is a next-generation model for digital manufacturing.
It combines invention, AI-powered innovation, workforce training and open collaboration model. It’s more than a facility: It’s a launchpad for next-generation product development. Our vision is to create industry-specific ecosystems anchored by Eruptor facilities across the U.S. and beyond.
Built for rapid prototyping, cross-sector collaboration, and government-industry partnerships, The Eruptor supports early-stage to mid-scale production.
Fully sensorized and data-driven
Converts ideas and intellectual property into tangible, small-batch, high-value products
Provides rapid prototyping, fabrication, and commercialization services
Supports startups, academia, and federal programs
Strategically co-developed with Siemens Advanta, The Eruptor serves as both a state-of-the-art facility and an economic development engine, fostering spin-outs, start-ups, and high-value jobs.
First Location: Central Florida
Focus: Aerospace & Defense, Entertainment Industry
Key Capabilities
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10,000 SF Innovation Lab
•High-end graphic computer workstations with advanced CAD software applications
•Advanced process design & process simulation software tools
•Immersion/visualization systems
•Metrology measurement/reverse engineering lab
•Fabrication lab
•Engineering services
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23,000 SF Tool Hall
•Polymer additive manufacturing systems
•Metal additive manufacturing systems
•Machining equipment
•Sheet metal forming equipment
•Laser cutting
•Hydro and robotic forming
•Robotic material handling system
•IIoT Infrastructure
“The Eruptor provides a unique ecosystem of design and advanced manufacturing technologies and interesting companies we can partner with, helping bring new products to market.”
- Anand Tanikella, VP, Global R&D Abrasives, Saint-Gobain
“The Eruptor is the world’s beacon for advanced manufacturing and smart building innovation.”
- Randall Cox, SVP & Partner, Siemens Advanta
“The Eruptor will allow us to provide a showcase environment for our end-to-end industrial automation product sets, not just robotics. It will help us mobilize our marketing efforts in the U.S.”
- Jane Heffner, Director, North American Sales, Robotics Solutions, ABB
“The Eruptor is best thought of as a ‘Gyroscope of Invention’ coalescing from generative design to mass customization. It enables people to witness this coalescence via hands-on participation, thereby embedding from within an historic, future manufacturing paradigm.”
- Arthur Daemmrich, Former Executive Director, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation, The Smithsonian Institution
“nuForj’s vision for the Eruptor is the future of work. It creates change harmoniously and is the future of collaboration. The Eruptor is about creating a unique, holistic ecosystem that has a perfect confluence for these moving parts. It fluidly solves an enormous complexity problem to advance manufacturing.”
- Alex McDowell, British Production Designer & Creator of “World Building Methodology,” renowned for his work in film, having created “Fight Club” and, together with Steven Spielberg, the classic “Minority Report”