Elphinstone Group is an Australian

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that manufactures and assembles heavy equipment for the mining industry. It has facilities in

Burnie, Tasmania Burnie ( ; Aboriginal Tasmanians#North, pirinilaplu/palawa kani: ''Pataway'') is a port city located on the North West Tasmania, north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is the fourth largest city on the island, located approximately north ...

and in

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. The corporate group includes the William Adams

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dealer in Tasmania and Victoria.

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. Elphinstone was one of the bidders to supply new armoured vehicles to the

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through project Land 400. If successful, the vehicles would have been built in Tasmania. However their vehicle was not selected for phase two of testing by the Department of Defence.

Dale Elphinstone

Founder, Dale Elphinstone, started his working life as an apprentice at William Adams. He later bought the company. According to the ''

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'', in 2016 Elphinstone was assessed as Tasmania's wealthiest person by

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and remained so . Dale Elphinstone's brother, Graeme, owns a similarly named company based at

Triabunna Triabunna is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Glamorgan–Spring Bay in the South-east LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about north-east of the city of Hobart. The has a population of 905 for the state ...

, on the east coast of Tasmania.

References

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