Elphinstone Group

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Elphinstone Group
Type Private
Industryheavy vehicle manufacture
Founded1975;48 years ago (1975)
FounderDale Elphinstone
Headquarters,
Key people
Dale Elphinstone
Productsmining equipment, explosives delivery trucks [1]
Number of employees
2,500 [2]  (2017)
Website elphinstone.com

Elphinstone Group is an Australian privately held company that manufactures and assembles heavy equipment for the mining industry. It has facilities in Burnie, Tasmania [1] and in Victoria. [3] The corporate group includes the William Adams Caterpillar dealer in Tasmania and Victoria. [4]

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Elphinstone Sustainable Energy & Engineering Solutions is a division of Elphinstone Group, formed by the acquisition of Southern Prospect. It provides design, manufacture and installation of electricity generation for remote sites. [5]

Elphinstone was one of the bidders to supply new armoured vehicles to the Australian Defence Force through project Land 400. If successful, the vehicles would have been built in Tasmania. [6] However their vehicle was not selected for phase two of testing by the Department of Defence. [7]

Dale Elphinstone

Founder, Dale Elphinstone, started his working life as an apprentice at William Adams. He later bought the company. [2] In 2016, Elphinstone was assessed as Tasmania's richest person by net worth [8] and remains so as of 2019. [9]

Dale Elphinstone's brother, Graeme, owns a similarly named company based at Triabunna, on the east coast of Tasmania. [10]

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Elphinstone Engineering is an Australian company which manufactures specialised trailers for the transport industry and equipment for weighing trucks, including on-board scales that weigh the load. It focuses particularly on support for forestry. It has facilities at Triabunna in Tasmania and Sunshine West in Victoria. The company was founded by Graeme Elphinstone in 1976. Graeme Elphinstone's brother Dale owns a similarly named company based in Burnie.

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