| Elphinstone Group | |
| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | heavy vehicle manufacture |
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| Successors: | --> |
| Founder: | Dale Elphinstone |
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| Hq Location City: | Burnie, Tasmania |
| Hq Location Country: | Australia |
| Areas Served: | --> |
| Key People: | Dale Elphinstone |
| Products: | mining equipment, explosives delivery trucks |
| Owners: | --> |
| Num Employees: | 2,500 |
| Num Employees Year: | 2017 |
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.[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]
Founder, Dale Elphinstone, started his working life as an apprentice at William Adams. He later bought the company.[7] 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]