Hyperbolic 3-manifolds with large kissing number

In this article we construct a sequence $\{M_i\}$ of non compact finite volume hyperbolic $3$-manifolds whose kissing number grows at least as $\mathrm{vol}(M_i)^{\frac{31}{27}-\epsilon}$ for any $\epsilon>0$. This extends a previous result due to Schmutz in dimension $2$.