The Eruptor: High-tech research center advances in Amherst Backers of The Eruptor Lab have a purchase-and-sale agreement on land in North Amherst near the Mill District. A artist’s rendering shows the 80,000-square-foot building that will house the technology and manufacturing incubator, which will bring together businesses, UMass researchers and scientists. Published: 4/23/2021 8:24:02 PM AMHERST — Three-dimensional printing, laser technology and other sophisticated manufacturing equipment, to be housed in a large building in North Amherst, will provide incubation space for companies to build, develop, test and improve their products. “This is consistent with the intellectual capital that is the backbone of the Amherst economy,” said former State Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, a principal with nuForj LLC of Springfield that is planning The Eruptor Lab, a project aimed at diversifying the town’s economy, improving its tax base and bringing 75 high-paying jobs to the region.