Tripax Engineering

Tripax Engineering

Tripax Engineering develops, manufactures and markets equipment and solutions for the food and pet food industries.

Tripax Engineering customizes each solution to suit your specific needs by having a local sales, engineering, production and service team in Melbourne while delivering the best quality in the industry.

Tripax Engineering is supported by our parent company Jorgensen Engineering and our sister company brüel international in Europe to supply state-of-the-art solutions within a number of business areas. At Tripax Engineering we specialize in supplying the best solutions to the Oceania market by having our own in-house engineering department and sharing our knowledge within the Jorgensen Group.

Our customer base varies from the local the farmer to the largest food manufacturers in Oceania.

Our history — From steel fabricator to food industry turnkey supplier

  • 1957: John Buck and Alex Fyfe register Whitehorse Drive in Grocery Pty. Ltd. at Bridge Road in Richmond, Melbourne. The company specializes in steel welding and general fabrication.
  • 1963: The company changes name to Tripax Engineering Co. Pty. Ltd.
  • 1968: Tripax now focuses on equipment for food processing as well as general engineering and moves to bigger premises at Weir Street in Glen Iris.
  • 1972: Tripax becomes a part of the Jaybee Engineering Group of companies. Shortly after Tripax starts cooperation with Jorgensen Engineering on bean and onion peeling equipment.
  • 1975: Tripax is acquired by Jorgensen Engineering A/S (named Bøg Jørgensens Maskinfabrik at this time).
  • 1979: Tripax moves into the bigger premises in Bayswater.
  • 2005: Tripax buys Akro-Pak Packaging Machinery Co. Pty. Ltd. specializing in crate/bin washing and filling systems.
  • 2010: In addition to the traditional Tripax product range Tripax offers solutions within packaging handling, filling lines and crate/bin washing representing Jorgensen and our sister companies brüel international a/s and Akro-Pak brüel.

Company ownership

  • Founders: John Buck and Alex Fyfe in 1957.
  • Owner: Jorgensen Engineering a/s.