Elphinstone Group

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Elphinstone Group
Company typePrivate
IndustryHeavy vehicle manufacturing
Founded1975
FounderDale Elphinstone
Headquarters
Burnie, Tasmania
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Australia
ProductsExplosives delivery trucks
Mining equipment
Number of employees
2,500 (2017)
Websiteelphinstone.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 and in Victoria.[1][2] The corporate group includes the William Adams Caterpillar dealer in Tasmania and Victoria.[3]

Operations

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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.[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]

Dale Elphinstone

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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.[11]

Dale Elphinstone's brother, Graeme, owns a similarly named company based at Triabunna, on the east coast of Tasmania.[12]

References

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  1. ^ Durie, John (11 September 2017). "Orica revs up". The Australian. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Corporate profile" (PDF). Elphinstone Group. August 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  3. ^ "How the Rich Invest: Tasmania's Dale Elphinstone on stock picking". Australian Financial Review. Fairfax Media. 11 January 2017. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Elphinstone Sustainable Energy & Engineering Solutions". Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  5. ^ Kempton, Helen (29 June 2016). "Defence contract a game-changer for Burnie on Tasmania's North-West Coast". PerthNow. Seven West Media. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Down to 2: Land 400 Phase 2 - Australian Defence Magazine". Australian Defence Magazine. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  7. ^ Tasmanian built Bustechs enter Metro service Australian Bus issue 88 July 2018 page 11
  8. ^ BusTech Group and Elphistone deliver 100th bus for Tasamania Bustech 23 April 2021
  9. ^ "Elphinstone Group". Big Picture Tasmania. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  10. ^ Hope, Emma (27 May 2016). "Burnie's Dale Elphinstone and Hobart's Bruce Neill feature on latest BRW Top 200 Rich List". The Mercury. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  11. ^ Ford, Sean (30 May 2019). "Elphinstone tops Tassie wealth list, two more make national cut". The Advocate. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  12. ^ "Brothers in arms". Australian Forests and Timber. 1 February 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2017.