Cubic Ink is using Formnext 2025 in Frankfurt to present new resin-based 3D printing materials, a technology partnership with SK Industriemodell, and scaled resin production in the USA. The company is thus clearly positioning itself as a materials partner for industrial additive manufacturing scenarios, particularly in DLP, LCD, SLA and material jetting environments.
The portfolio includes resins for casting and tooling applications, functional prototyping and high-temperature applications. Among the newly introduced products is Cubic Ink Mold 3100 VP for mechanically easy-to-break silicone casting molds, for example in audiology. The material can be processed on common DLP, LCD and mSLA systems and is aimed at users who need dimensionally stable tools that can then be easily demolded. For the dental sector, Cubic Ink Dental 3000 VP is used to produce high-contrast impression molds for aligners in thermoforming processes; its thermal resistance and mechanical properties are tailored to reproducible workflows in laboratories. With Cubic Ink High Performance 4-4800 VP EU, the manufacturer is also targeting orthotics applications: the resin combines impact resistance and heat deflection resistance and has passed cytotoxicity testing.
“We live up to our claim ‘We give shape to ideas’ with a continuously growing product portfolio thanks to targeted further development of existing materials and the introduction of new, application-specific 3D printing solutions,” explains Dr. Max Röttger, Head of Cubic Ink. “Today, we already supply customers worldwide with highly specialized photopolymers that deliver top performance and are precisely tailored to industrial requirements. As an innovative technology leader, Cubic Ink is paving the way for the next level of additive manufacturing at an industrial scale.”
A key focus of the trade fair presentation is the partnership with SK Industriemodell from Aachen. As part of the “Print & Inject” approach, injection molds are produced directly by 3D printing from Cubic Ink mold resins in order to injection-mold prototypes and small series with production-grade materials such as PA66 GF, PPS or PEEK. Water-breakable or reusable mold inserts are intended to enable complex geometries, multi-component parts and hybrid prototypes with metal inserts in short cycles.
The package is rounded off by scaling up the production of UV-curable resins in the USA in cooperation with ACTEGA. Since spring 2025, large-volume batches for medical technology and other industries have been produced there. For customers in North America and, in the future, Europe, the expanded capacities mean shorter delivery times and more robust supply chains – an increasingly important factor when photopolymers are used on an industrial scale.
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