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You are here: Home / 3D Printing News / EnvisionTEC's new E Shore A material for 3D Printed footwear is now available for experienced users

EnvisionTEC's new E Shore A material for 3D Printed footwear is now available for experienced users

by Rapid 3D

EnvisionTEC’s E-Shore A material is now available in beta for experienced customers. This advanced engineering-grade material is a polyurethane-like material that produces a final material with a soft Shore A value in the 40-50 range. E-Shore A is a material developed for end-use applications such as footwear, sporting goods, and other uses requiring durability, comfort and flexibility. E-Shore A is also waterproof.

Buzz about the idea of 3D printed footwear, custom or not, has been riveting the masses for a while now, but the consumer marketplace still has very little actual footwear to show for it.
3D printed Nike sneakers (football cleats) first appeared on the cover of Manufacturing Engineering magazine way back in June 2013. At the time, Nike boasted they were the “the sport’s first 3D-printed plate” and explained how 3D printing allowed for the creation of shapes “not possible in traditional manufacturing processes.”
That same year, New Balance publicly promoted the use of a pair of custom 3D printed plates for a professional runner, Jack Bolas.
It’s been a fun four years since then, filled with lots of hype-filled news stories about 3D printed kicks. If you’re a consumer who has actually been waiting for these things, you may be tempted to toss 3D printed shoes into a dustbin with flying cars.
But the truth is, they are coming. 3D printing is this amazing combustion of mechanical, electronic, optical and software engineering, as well as material science. As such, it takes time for all this manufacturing technology to be optimized to work together for specific tasks — way more time than it takes for, say, consumer technology.
At EnvisionTEC, we’ve been developing 3D printers and materials for 15 years, so we know this stuff takes time.
That’s why we’re so incredibly excited that our E-Shore A material for footwear is finally ready for beta testing on our Perfactory line of 3D printers, a family of printers that is one of the most reliable in the world, now in its fourth generation. Our materials team, headed by 3D printing chemistry expert Dr. Vadim Nazarov, has been hard at work on this material for a while and we’re putting it through the paces for final release now.
Aside from being waterproof, E-Shore A is durable, tear-resistant and comfortable. It also has a stable viscosity and prints beautifully.

EnvisionTEC's new E Shore A material is now available for experienced users

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