Toronto-based startup RevoMM is offering process cooling and monitoring technologies from German firms Technotrans and Enesty GmbH to customers throughout Canada.
Christian Neumann working the Technotrans/Enesty booth at the K 2025 show. Photo Credit: Canadian Plastics
RevoMM Inc. is an industrial service provider specializing in digital flow control and high-efficiency industrial cooling for injection molding. That’s the straightforward part. How the company got to this point is a bit more circuitous.
The Toronto-based firm was founded in 2022 by Christian Neumann and is the Canadian sales and service representative for German OEMs Technotrans SE, a thermal management specialist that makes temperature control units; and Enesty GmbH, which makes the Orcinus system for mold temperature control in plastics processing. But RevoMM only became a full-time distributor and service provider in the plastics space last year.
FROM PRINTING TO PLASTICS
Born and raised in Germany, Neumann definitely has the bona fides for machinery sales, having studied press and system engineering at Bsz for Technology/Gustav Anton Zeuner, a vocational secondary school for manufacturing, automotive, and HVAC technology in Dresden. In 2005, he joined printing machine maker KBA – which later changed its name to Keonig & Bauer – starting as an assistant installation technician after finishing his factory apprenticeship. “I worked my way up to become a lead installer within the first year and in 2009 took what was supposed to be a one-year assignment to head the mechanical field service at its Canadian sales and service agency, based out of Toronto – but I wound up staying,” he said. Neumann spent the next ten years working as a field service specialist, travelling throughout both Canada and the U.S. “To that point, my career had always been in printing,” he said. “I got involved in plastics through a childhood friend in Germany, who was a co-founder of the Orcinus Orca temperature control system, and who asked me to represent them in Canada. I added it as a side business at first and founded RevoMM in 2022, and then decided to go all-in in 2025, leaving Koenig & Bauer after 23 years. I’m now full-time at RevoMM as founder and head of sales and business development, devoted almost exclusively to plastics.”
The two OEM brands that RevoMM represents are complementary, Neumann said, and already have a strong connection to each other in Europe. “The Orcinus systems are maintenance-free and provide high-precision digital temperature control for injection molding, using contactless ultrasonic sensors to monitor each circuit individually, offering flow/delta-T control,” Neumann said. “They meet the requirements of both traditional engineering plastics with media temperatures of up to 120°C and high-performance plastics with media temperatures of up to 180°C, and are based on the principle of parallel distribution – the cooling or temperature control medium is distributed from a central point to several circuits evenly to ensure a constant temperature in each connected circuit, which is important for the consistent quality of the parts being molded. And every system is custom designed to meet a customer’s specific needs.”
Technotrans, meanwhile, offers temperature and fluid management solutions, including temperature control units ranging from cost-optimized basic units to large central systems with outputs in the megawatt range. The company has a sales office in Mt. Prospect, Ill., but no direct sales in Canada until now. “Technotrans specializes in the development of particularly energy-efficient and sustainable systems for a wide temperature range of -80°C to more than 430°C, which is unique in the plastics industry,” Neumann said. “Compared with conventional TCUs, Technotrans’s TCUs can achieve energy savings of up to 80 per cent.” New from the company is the FuzzyControl controller, an intelligent, self-optimizing temperature control system designed to improve stability and efficiency in injection molding. “It uses ‘fuzzy logic,’ a method inspired by human reasoning, to continuously analyze the control loop and adjust its parameters in real time, so the system can maintain the target mold temperature accurately without manual intervention,” Neumann said. “The system is designed to prevent the temperature overshoot typically associated with PID controllers, helping reduce operating costs while improving overall equipment effectiveness.”
GOING THE EXTRA MILES
Despite (or perhaps because of) entering the plastics space during a less-than-auspicious time – thanks to the uncertainty caused by the ever-changing U.S. tariff policy – Neumann is pursuing new business aggressively. “I’m on the road constantly, meeting potential injection molding customers,” he said. “My go-to opening question is, ‘Are you running your injection molding process historically or scientifically?’ The usual answer is, ‘Historically, we’ve always done it this way.’ That’s the opening I’m looking for to engage them in newer, more sustainable options.” Neumann’s business travels also take him beyond Canada. “I was in Salt Lake City, Utah, in mid-2025 with orcinus’s American team and connected with three global medical manufacturers and received fantastic feedback, and the first orders from one of the molders are already coming in,” he said. Orcinus offers free trial installations, and some customers are taking advantage. “A contract molder in the Chicago area installed a 12-circuit maintenance-free Orcinus Orca trial unit a few months ago, and they’re now monitoring it to gain real insight into their process,” he said.
Installation of an Orcinus Orca digital flow manifold on a medical injection molding application. The system provides precise monitoring and control of cooling circuits, ensuring consistent part quality and reduced cycle times in critical medical production environments. Photo Credit: Christian Neumann
Neumann also worked at the Enesty GmbH and Technotrans booths every day of the eight-day K 2025 trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany last October. “I made some good Canadian contacts at K,” he said. “The international visitors who come all the way to Germany for this show aren’t just browsing, they know what they’re looking for, so it was very productive.” And two weeks after the K show, Neumann ran his own RevoMM booth at ADM Expo in Toronto. “Hosting my own booth was definitely a milestone and a good way to announce that RevoMM is here,” he said. RevoMM currently has two locations: Its headquarters in Toronto, which includes a warehouse, and a larger warehouse in nearby Milton, Ont. “We have Orcinus trial units in stock, and a range of Technotrans TCUs in stock on-site,” Neumann said. “For orders that need to be shipped from Germany, Technotrans TCUs can usually be delivered within three weeks and an Orcinus system in about six weeks, depending on the size and complexity of the system.” The Orcinus systems are designed specifically for plastics, but the Technotrans units can also be used for metal manufacturing such as die casting and aluminum manufacturing, Neumann said. “Data centre cooling in North America is another market that Technotrans is exploring,” he noted.
Neumann ran his own RevoMM booth at ADM Expo in Toronto last year. Photo Credit: Canadian Plastics
A FOOT IN BOTH WORLDS
Canada is sometimes referred to as the most European of non-European nations, and Neumann – who has a foot in both worlds – sees some similarities. “Canadian plastics companies have a European level of commitment to sustainable production, which I wasn’t expecting at first,” he said. “Part of it is due to high energy costs, but it’s also part of the manufacturing culture here. American customers tend to be less concerned with sustainability and more focused on cycle time reduction.”
As a new player in Canada’s plastics space, Neumann acknowledges the challenges and sees some opportunities. “Introducing a new brand to the marketplace is always hard, but the Canadians I’m meeting with seem interested in listening, while holding off on investing right now because of the tariff uncertainty,” he said. “But they don’t want to fall behind technologically with their process cooling, so the goal is to give them options, beyond what they already have, for when the market picks up again. And RevoMM’s expertise goes beyond cooling solutions – we provide machinery maintenance and repair, spare parts service, system layout and installation planning, and process and machine diagnostics to optimize efficiency, reduce downtime, and drive innovation in manufacturing. So I think we’re in a good place, and I’m excited to keep meeting with new potential injection molding customers.”