Looking Back: Year in Review 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on a year that reinforced TSM’s role as a global partner in blending, control, and automation technologies for the plastics industry. From expanding our international presence to deepening collaboration with OEMs and processors worldwide, this year marked meaningful progress in how we support smarter, more efficient manufacturing.

Throughout 2025, our teams spent time where it matters most – on factory floors, at extrusion lines, in control rooms, and at major industry events across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Working side by side with processors and OEMs, we focused on practical solutions to real challenges around quality, efficiency, sustainability, and control.

From Dublin to Düsseldorf, Cleveland to Shenzhen, and Tainan to Ho Chi Minh City, we demonstrated smarter ways to manage materials, stabilise processes, and improve performance across extrusion, compounding, recycling, and advanced materials applications.

This Year in Review highlights how TSM’s technologies, partnerships, and global footprint are helping shape the next chapter of plastics processing – not through theory, but through measurable results.

A Global Year of Momentum

In 2025, TSM’s global presence became stronger and more visible than ever.

We exhibited at many of the industry’s most influential events, including K 2025 in Düsseldorf, Chinaplas in Shenzhen, Plastics Live in Dublin, Plastics Extrusion World Expo in Cleveland, VietnamPlas in Ho Chi Minh City, ProPak Asia in Bangkok, and the Plastics, Rubber & Composite Material Fair in Taiwan, alongside regional conferences and polymer-focused events throughout the year.

Across these events, we engaged with processors, OEMs, distributors, and technology partners operating in blown film, compounding, recycling, packaging, and advanced materials. While markets and applications varied, the conversations were remarkably consistent:

• Producers are under increasing pressure to do more with less – less waste, less energy, less downtime
• There is growing demand for smarter automation, not simply more equipment
• Reliable control and material management are essential for both profitability and sustainability

This global engagement reinforced a core belief at TSM: innovation does not happen in isolation. It is driven by real operational needs and close collaboration with those running production every day.

Throughout the year, we shared many of these moments across our social channels, giving our wider network insight into the people, projects, and partnerships behind TSM’s momentum.

Innovation With Purpose

TSM’s focus has always been on helping processors and OEMs continuously improve manufacturing performance. In 2025, that focus translated into product developments designed to set higher standards for control, accuracy, and reliability.

OptiCool

Blown film processors across multiple regions consistently highlighted the same challenges: cooling efficiency, bubble stability, and throughput limitations.

OptiCool, our secondary cooling ring, was engineered specifically to address these pressure points. Suitable for both retrofit projects and new blown film lines, OptiCool delivers:

• Improved cooling efficiency and bubble stability
• Enhanced control over film quality
• A compact design suited to tight installations
• A clear, demonstrable return on investment

When combined with the SmartLip One Air Ring, OptiCool provides processors with a powerful tool to maximise line performance and meet increasingly demanding film specifications.

OptiX MK2

As material costs continue to rise, dosing accuracy has become more critical than ever for extrusion applications.

The OptiX MK2 range of blenders was developed to deliver high-accuracy dosing across a wide throughput range. Leveraging gain-in-weight batch dosing, patented reverse-flight auger mixing, and continuous loss-in-weight measurement, OptiX MK2 provides:

• Precise, repeatable dosing performance
• Stable and responsive extrusion control
• Reduced material waste and tighter tolerances

For processors, this means more predictable quality and better use of every pellet.

OptiBlend MK2

The OptiBlend MK2 continuous blending range was designed for applications where consistency and long-term reliability are essential.

With a modular design that allows easy expansion, gravimetric throughput control for multiple materials, and optional haul-off measurement for weight-per-length control, OptiBlend MK2 helps processors achieve:

• Consistent material homogeneity
• Reliable, repeatable product quality
• Reduced manual intervention and adjustment

Together, these innovations reflect TSM’s commitment to delivering technologies that meet today’s demands while actively shaping the future of smart manufacturing.

Customer Success That Proves the Mission

TSM’s growth has always been built on long-term collaboration, and 2025 was no exception.

Across packaging, compounding, recycling, and advanced materials, customers trusted TSM to deliver solutions that address real production challenges at scale. Throughout the year, several partners allowed us to share their stories, highlighting how TSM technologies delivered measurable improvements in performance, efficiency, and control.

Bolsas de los Altos

One of Mexico’s largest soft packaging producers, Bolsas de los Altos required a solution to support growing demand across U.S. and Canadian markets. Working in partnership with Jinming, TSM delivered a tailored system that improved operational efficiency and resource management, supporting high-volume production for international markets.

Epsilyte

Operating in advanced materials, Epsilyte required a modernised approach to mixing and material handling. TSM delivered a turnkey solution that eliminated inefficiencies and improved throughput, reinforcing our capability in high-precision, safety-critical applications.

Polykemi

Polykemi’s state-of-the-art U.S. compounding facility sets a benchmark for sustainable production. TSM’s blending solutions played a key role in achieving the accuracy, consistency, and sustainability targets required for advanced compounding operations.

Polystar

A globally recognised OEM exporting to more than 110 countries, Polystar integrates TSM technologies to enhance mechanical performance with precise process control. This partnership highlights the impact of combining Polystar’s engineering expertise with TSM’s process intelligence to deliver next-level film quality and efficiency.

The People Behind the Performance

Behind every installation, partnership, and innovation is a global team working closely with customers on the factory floor.

In 2025, team visits, internal milestones, and collaborative projects strengthened both our culture and our ability to deliver consistent results worldwide. These moments reflect the people behind the technology who make TSM a trusted partner across the industry.

Looking Ahead

As we move into 2026, TSM remains focused on helping processors and OEMs build smarter, more efficient, and more resilient operations.

With new projects underway and advanced technologies in development, we enter the year not simply prepared for what’s next – but actively shaping it through innovation, partnership, and performance-driven solutions.