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 is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. , Burnie had an urban popu ...

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

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Dale Elphinstone

Founder, Dale Elphinstone, started his working life as an apprentice at William Adams. He later bought the company. In 2016, Elphinstone was assessed as Tasmania's richest person by

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and remains so as of 2019. 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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