About TRIO

MORE THAN 100 YEARS IN THE BUSINESS OF FISH PROCESSING

 

Stavanger Beslagfabrik, later renamed TRIO, was founded by Fredrick Racine in Stavanger, Norway in 1898. In the beginning the company manufactured only door and window fittings and knifes, but later, in 1902, bought a patent for a seaming machine aimed at the local canning industry. This turned out to be the starting point of the success of Trio Fish Processing Machinery AS.
In the early 1900, Stavanger was the center for sardine canning. More than 60 canning factories were registered in Stavanger in 1918. The number of employees increased from about 1800 in year 1900 to 5000 in 1915. The production was highly labour intensive and the workers worked 10 hours a day 6 days a week.
Canning was done by hand, and a fast worker could fill a can with sardines in 10 seconds. The cans were then sealed manually at the rate of one can per minute. That is why the Trio seaming machine, named "Reinerts Seaming Machine" after the inventor, became so important for the industry. With this invention it was possible to seam more cans in one hour than one person could do in a day. Capacity per worker increased from 600 cans per day to 6000.
Reinerts Seaming Machine claimed international recognition, and in 1909 several machines were installed in the city of Lorient in France. In the years 1920-1970, Trio continued to supply machines to the canning industry around the world.
Towards the end of the 1960's, however, the sardine industry was struggling. To broaden its markets, Trio went into co-operation with the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries (Fiskeri Direktoratet) with the objective of developing a skinning machine for herring. The project was named ”Fiskeri Direktoratets Skinnemaskin”. Hence FDS skinning machine.
The project resulted in the first freeze drum skinning machine, which was later patented by Trio. All our skinning machines have later been named Trio FDS, "Freeze Drum Skinning"

For further information about Trio please visit their homepage at www.trio.no