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]
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | heavy vehicle manufacture |
| Founded | 1975 |
| Founder | Dale Elphinstone |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Dale Elphinstone |
| Products | mining equipment, explosives delivery trucks[1] |
Number of employees | 2,500[2] (2017) |
| Website | elphinstone |
Operations
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]