MODERN ROAD TANKERS Loyal customer Hunts Fuel’s tanker getting ready for a service at Liquip SA.
From the ground up LEADING SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BASED TANKER REPAIR AND INSTALLATION COMPANY, LIQUIP SA, HAS GROWN FROM A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN TWO MATES WHO EACH PUT IN $5,000 TO KICK OFF THEIR BUSINESS, J&J ENGINEERING, IN 1984. Since their honest beginnings in 1984, Liquip
work for ourselves,” says Stevo of the
morning. Then on the Monday morning
South Australia, a proud member of Liquip’s
decision he and Ian, who sadly passed away
Ian and I were sitting there on a couple of
national distribution and service network,
in 2015, made.
Coke crates and we said to each other, ‘we’d
has been servicing the local South Australian
“We gave the company our notices on
better start looking for some work’.”
fuel industry and providing high quality bulk
the Monday and left the following Friday,
Being a spur of the moment decision, neither
transfer products and a solutions driven one-
looking in the newspaper that afternoon to
Stevo nor Ian had planned ahead, but they
stop-shop to keep fuel moving.
find a place to set up.
hit the ground running and it wasn’t long
The Managing Director of Liquip SA, Stevo
“We found a factory at Wingfield for lease
before the work started rolling in for the
Jurkovic and his former business partner and
and signed the contract on the Saturday
newly formed J&J Engineering.
friend, the late Ian Jack, both commenced fitter and turner apprenticeships with a well-known fuel and liquid distribution equipment company in South Australia back in the mid-1970s. They both progressed through the ranks and by the early 1980s were running the workshop. While they enjoyed the work, the pair believed they could do a better job and provide a higher level of service on their own. They decided, in 1984, to give it a crack. “We were young and bullet-proof and decided we would like to do this sort of
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Liquip SA workshop and office located in Largs North in South Australia.
