RadTech Announces New Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance – Spanning Printing Inks, Coatings and Allied Industries

RadTech, the non-profit association for UV + EB photopolymer chemistry, in cooperation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), announces the formation of the Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance (PAMA), with the mission of involve industry, academia, government and NGOs to advance materials and systems science for additive manufacturing.

To launch the new group, PAMA will organize a three-part virtual workshop that will provide insight and opportunities for the characterization of photopolymer materials and systems in additive manufacturing. The online workshop will take place on November 16, 17 and 18, 2021 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT daily and will build on the success of the Roadmap for Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing developed by NIST and RadTech in 2019.

“The roadmap for additive manufacturing of photopolymers developed from the workshop guided by NIST and RadTech highlights the key actions that must be taken for additive manufacturing of photopolymers to contribute substantially to global manufacturing.” said Mike Idacavage, Radical Curing LLC. “The Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance (PAMA) webinars in November will be an important step in accelerating collaboration and research in photopolymer additive manufacturing. “

The workshop will present an overview of PAMA, interactive networking sessions with focused topics and an open discussion on advanced tools and methods to characterize PAM materials.

Guest panelists include Jeff Stansbury, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz; Stephanie Benight, Tactile Materials Solutions; Neil Cramer, Arkema; H. Jerry Qi, Georgia Institute of Technology; Robert McLeod, University of Colorado Boulder; David Walker, Azul3D; Cameron Miller, NIST; Xiayun Zhao, University of Pittsburgh; and Dianne Poster, NIST.

For more details and to register for free, please visit https://radtech.org/pama/pama-webinars/.

The PAMA team includes Dianne L. Poster, Ph.D., NIST; Callie I. Higgins, Ph.D., NIST; Jason P. Killgore, Ph.D., NIST; Mike Idacavage, Ph.D., Radical Curing, LLC; Neil Cramer, Ph.D., Arkema; and Stephanie Benight, Ph.D., Tactile Materials Solutions.

To learn more about PAMA, visit https://radtech.org/pama/.