Elphinstone Group
{{Short description|Australian manufacturer of mining equipment}}
{{Use Australian English|date=October 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Elphinstone Group
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| type =Private
| industry = heavy vehicle manufacture
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1975|df=y}}
| founder = Dale Elphinstone
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| hq_location_city = Burnie, Tasmania
| hq_location_country = Australia
| area_served =
| key_people = Dale Elphinstone
| products = mining equipment, explosives delivery trucks
| owner =
| num_employees_year = 2017
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| website = {{URL|http://elphinstone.com/}}
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Elphinstone Group is an Australian privately held company that manufactures and assembles heavy equipment for the mining industry. It has facilities in Burnie, Tasmania{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/john-durie/acccs-likely-roaming-call-a-relief-to-telstra/news-story/8112c9ef44fdc8f904e8a295bc3cd920 |title=Orica revs up |first=John |last=Durie |newspaper=The Australian |date=11 September 2017 |access-date=23 October 2017}} and in Victoria.{{cite web |url=http://elphinstone.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Group-Profile-August-2016.pdf |publisher=Elphinstone Group |title=Corporate profile |date=August 2016 |access-date=23 October 2017}} The corporate group includes the William Adams Caterpillar dealer in Tasmania and Victoria.{{cite news |url=http://www.afr.com/business/mining/how-the-rich-invest-tasmanias-dale-elphinstone-on-stock-picking-20170110-gtowkx |title=How the Rich Invest: Tasmania's Dale Elphinstone on stock picking |date=11 January 2017 |newspaper=Australian Financial Review |publisher=Fairfax Media |access-date=23 October 2017}}
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.{{cite web |url=http://elphinstone.com/elphinstone-sustainable-energy-and-engineering-solutions/ |title=Elphinstone Sustainable Energy & Engineering Solutions |access-date=24 October 2017}}
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.{{cite news |url=http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/national/defence-contract-a-gamechanger-for-burnie-on-tasmanias-northwest-coast/news-story/06aeffb9bdde99d4a1f41b240facd2a8 |title=Defence contract a game-changer for Burnie on Tasmania's North-West Coast |date=29 June 2016 |first=Helen |last=Kempton |publisher=Seven West Media |newspaper=PerthNow |access-date=24 October 2017}} However their vehicle was not selected for phase two of testing by the Department of Defence.{{cite news|title=Down to 2: Land 400 Phase 2 - Australian Defence Magazine|url=http://www.australiandefence.com.au/news/down-to-2-land-400-phase-2|access-date=23 October 2017|work=Australian Defence Magazine|language=en}}
Dale Elphinstone
Founder, Dale Elphinstone, started his working life as an apprentice at William Adams. He later bought the company.{{cite web |url=http://bigpicturetas.com.au/elphinstone-group/ |title=Elphinstone Group |work=Big Picture Tasmania |access-date=23 October 2017}} According to the Financial Review, in 2016 Elphinstone was assessed as Tasmania's wealthiest person by net worth{{cite news |url=https://www.themercury.com.au/lifestyle/burnies-dale-elphinstone-and-hobarts-bruce-neill-feature-on-latest-brw-top-200-rich-list/news-story/108d3cd1441fda6ab64a30a491fcb3bc |newspaper=The Mercury |title=Burnie's Dale Elphinstone and Hobart's Bruce Neill feature on latest BRW Top 200 Rich List |first=Emma |last=Hope |date=27 May 2016 |access-date=19 June 2019}} and remained so {{as of|2019|lc=on}}.{{Cite web|last=Ford|first=Sean|date=2019-05-30|title=Elphinstone tops Tassie wealth list, two more make national cut|url=https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/6190634/elphinstone-tops-tassie-wealth-list-two-more-make-national-cut/|access-date=2021-09-30|website=The Advocate|language=en-AU}}
Dale Elphinstone's brother, Graeme, owns a similarly named company based at Triabunna, on the east coast of Tasmania.{{cite news |url=http://www.pressreader.com/australia/australian-forests-and-timber/20140201/282067684833848 |title=Brothers in arms |newspaper=Australian Forests and Timber |date=1 February 2014 |access-date=23 October 2017}}