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Webinar: FreeFoam™ – Manufacturing Closed Cell Foam without Tooling in an All-New 3D Printing Process

Webinar Invitation: August 3, 2022 - 2 pm EST
Learn how this new 3D printable photopolymer resin enables manufacturers to produce durable and dimensionally accurate foam parts without the tooling, trim and waste of standard foam production.

FreeFoam is a new family of photopolymer resins containing heat-activated foaming agents that are 3D printed with Digital Light Processing (DLP). After printing, FreeFoam parts are briefly put into an oven where the foaming agent creates closed cells inside the material in a tightly controlled process. This innovative material can be programmed to expand a specific amount between 2 to 7 times its original printed size – allowing FreeFoam parts to be shipped in a compact form and expanded on-demand in an oven close to the final point of use or assembly, saving shipping and inventory expenses. While 3D printers today can process photopolymers into lattice designs that simulate foams, FreeFoam is a true foam containing closed cells that can be printed in a lattice up to a fully dense design – delivering benefits for the automotive, furnishing, footwear, sporting goods, health care and other industries. 

In this webinar, you will learn:

  • How FreeFoam solves numerous pain points in foam production
  • Process Overview: The Basics of Printing and Expanding FreeFoam Parts
  • FreeFoam is part of a new family of DuraChain elastomers, which enables foaming and expanding a design accurately without a mold
  • FreeFoam strength-to-weight performance and other material properties
  • Designing for FreeFoam part production

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FreeFoam Live Webinar August 3, 2022 - 2 pm EST

Walter_Head_ShotPresented by: Walter Voit, President and CEO, Adaptive3D – Part of Desktop Metal

Walter Everett Voit is a tenured associate professor at the University of Texas at Dallas andco-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Adaptive 3D Technologies, which focuses on next-generation additive manufacturing based on specialty polymers. He has also co-founded Syzygy Memory Plastics, Ares Materials, Pascalor, Qualia, and Polycraft. Prof. Voit is the past President and Science and Technology Chair of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards through the National Institute of Standards and Technology and an International Atomic Energy Agency consultant in the field of radiation crosslinked shape memory polymers. He is a DARPA Young Faculty Awardee and DARPA Director’s Fellow. Prof. Voit received a BS in Computer Science in 2005 and a Masters in Artificial Intelligence from UT Dallas in 2006. Prof. Voit received a PhD in Material Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2009. While at Georgia Tech he was a Presidential Scholar and was selected to the prestigious TI:GER program.