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SensAble's FreeForm[R] Helps Hot Buttered Elves Design and Manufacture Eco-Friendly New Wallables[TM] 3D Foam Sculptures.

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Parents Can "Go Green" while Decorating their Children's Rooms with Beloved Characters; FreeForm's Sculptural CAD Provides Superb Detail and Production Efficiencies

WOBURN, Mass. -- SensAble Technologies, Inc announced that its customer, Hot Buttered Elves, a toy design company in Los Angeles, launched a new line of Wallables[TM] 3D foam decor products made from a unique "green" polyurethane material made from US-grown soybeans. These playful stick-on wall decorations were efficiently designed and manufactured to exacting licensed character makers' standards thanks to SensAble's FreeForm[R] 3D modeling system. Today's debut of 15 new characters includes "Jungle Sweets" - hippos, zebras, and giraffes- along with classic childhood favorites made from soy-based polyurethane foam enabled by RENUVA[TM] Renewable Resource Technology from The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW). These new "Wallables with RENUVA Inside" allow parents to create a better environment for their children's rooms - and the planet - while supporting US-driven manufacturing and design innovation.

SensAble's FreeForm modeling system enabled Hot Buttered Elves to design and manufacture its new Wallables in half the time of traditional processes, while faithfully preserving intricate...