| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Heavy vehicle manufacturing |
| Founded | 1975 |
| Founder | Dale Elphinstone |
| Headquarters | , Australia |
| Products | Explosives delivery trucks Mining equipment |
Number of employees | 2,500 (2017) |
| Website | elphinstone |
Elphinstone Group is an Australian privately held company that manufactures and assembles heavy equipment for the mining industry. It has facilities in Burnie, Tasmania and in Victoria. [1] [2] The corporate group includes the William Adams Caterpillar dealer in Tasmania and Victoria. [3]
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. [4]
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. [5] However their vehicle was not selected for phase two of testing by the Department of Defence. [6]
In 2018 Elphinstone commenced assembling Bustech bus bodies for Metro Tasmania. [7] [8]
Founder, Dale Elphinstone, started his working life as an apprentice at William Adams. He later bought the company. [9] According to the Australian Financial Review , in 2016 Elphinstone was assessed as Tasmania's wealthiest person by net worth [10] and remained so as of 2019 [update] . [11]
Dale Elphinstone's brother, Graeme, owns a similarly named company based at Triabunna, on the east coast of Tasmania. [12]