Up in Scotland, the University of Strathclyde's Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) has also announced its intention to open a new office in Sheffield. Operating out of the city's Olympic Legacy Park, the facility will provide South Yorkshire companies with improved access to advanced metallurgy technologies, numerical and analytical modelling tools and industrial forging and forming equipment. As the AFRC's first office outside of Scotland, the facility marks an important stage within its mission to help small UK businesses compete on the global stage, and should help it build close relationships with the nation's forging community, ahead of the launch of FutureForge, an upcoming £20 million hot forging platform. In the United States, meanwhile, Stratasys subsidiary Stratasys Direct Manufacturing has unveiled a new PolyJet Design and Print Center at its base in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.