ALTANA, a real specialty chemical substances firm, has scaled up the manufacturing of UV-curing resins for industrial additive serial manufacturing. On the identical time, the corporate has began manufacturing and supplying UV-curing resins from the Cubic Ink 3D printing materials household to a medical expertise firm within the US.
“The primary supply of our 3D printing resins is on its solution to the US West Coast,” mentioned Dr. Max Röttger, Head of Cubic Ink. “Our buyer proximity was essential to the profitable implementation of the challenge. We’re on-site and perceive the challenges of our prospects. This permits us to develop collectively and shortly develop particular person product options. That is very true for revolutionary applied sciences comparable to 3D printing.”
The primary high-volume batch of a UV-curing 3D printing resin by Cubic Ink was produced along with ALTANA’s ACTEGA division at its Cinnaminson (New Jersey) web site. ACTEGA is a worldwide provider of specialty coatings, inks, adhesives, and sealants with a give attention to the packaging and printing trade and plastic compounds for the healthcare trade.
Cubic Ink prospects profit not solely from the excessive stage of resolution experience but additionally from ALTANA’s in depth international manufacturing capacities. Due to state-of-the-art manufacturing expertise and high quality management, ALTANA is able to supplying 3D printing supplies within the high quality and amount required for industrial additive collection manufacturing. Clients additionally profit from dependable provide chains with brief supply occasions.
The present scaling of a Cubic Ink materials additionally demonstrates the quickly growing growth of large-volume purposes in resin-based 3D printing. Resulting from its complete vary of 3D printing supplies, Cubic Ink is well-positioned for this improvement. The manufacturing vary contains the resin-based portfolio to be used on all open printing methods. For instance, the property profiles of those supplies are designed for end-use purposes – with a selected give attention to ageing and chemical resistance. The resins’ low viscosity permits for dependable in-time processing and cost-efficient printing processes for prime efficiency. Along with this, relying on the printer and buyer necessities, printing properties and processes might be individually tailored.
Cubic Ink has thus strengthened its place as a manufacturer-independent, system-open materials provider for DLP, LCD, and SLA purposes, in addition to inks for materials jetting. Sooner or later, industrial customers within the automotive, aerospace, medical industries (audiology, dentistry, and orthopedics), and extra, can have fully new alternatives for the manufacturing of their merchandise.