Mission & Values
Four things we refuse to trade.
Not just the products. Everything behind them. Family-owned since 1957, we have held to these four values through every business we have bought and every market we have entered.
Our Values
Tapex has remained privately owned and family-run for four generations. That continuity gives us the freedom to think in decades, invest through cycles, and honour commitments long after they were made.
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Accountability
We hold ourselves to the outcomes we commit to. High standards across every business in the Group, backed by the tools, the support and the team to meet them. When something goes wrong, we say so and we fix it.
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Innovation
Tapex has manufactured world-firsts in every decade since 1957. The world's first synthetic flat strapping. The Southern Hemisphere's first polypropylene extrusion. The first Australian plastic barricade fencing. The first underground detectable warning tape. Our own synthetic grass products used in the Commonwealth and Olympic games. Innovation at Tapex is not a department. It is the reason the business exists.
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Respect
We respect the people who work here, the customers we serve and the communities where we operate. Long-tenured staff, flat structure and direct access to decision-making are not policy statements. They reflect how we believe a business should be run.
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Customer first
Every product we make, every structure we build and every twine we supply has to perform for the person using it. That is the starting point for every decision we make. If it does not work for the customer, it does not work.
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WHAT WE STAND FOR
Our Mission and Vision
Tapex Industrial products are specified across public and private infrastructure in Australia and New Zealand. Our customers range from major utility owners to the civil contractors and government bodies that build, maintain and protect the networks they depend on.
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Tapex Group exists to keep infrastructure safe, commercial growers productive and industrial operations running.
We do that through specialist businesses in our portfolio, a manufacturing capability built over more than 70 years and family ownership that has always taken the long view. The sectors we operate in are different. The standard we hold ourselves to is not.
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To build products and businesses that last, and earn the trust that brings customers back.
Built to outlast describes the product, but it also describes the company behind it. Every business in the Tapex Group is held to one standard: deliver something worth coming back for. That has been true since 1957, and it will be true long after.