Elphinstone Group
Elphinstone Group is an Australian company which manufactures and assembles heavy equipment for the mining industry. It has facilities Burnie, Tasmania and in Victoria. The corporate group includes the William Adams Caterpillar dealer in Tasmania and Victoria. Founder Dale Elphinstone started his working life as an apprentice at William Adams. He later bought the company. He is now counted as Tasmania's richest person.
Elphinstone's brother Graeme owns a similarly-named company based on the east coast of Tasmania at Triabunna.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.Defence
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. However their vehicle was not selected for phase 2 of testing by the Department of Defence.
