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The business that used to bear the name of founder Dale B Elphinstone in Tasmania, Australia, continues to migrate north to Thailand. Long foreshadowed, the latest ‘export’ of 280 jobs from Caterpillar’s Burnie operation to Rayong in Thailand has still hit the northern Tasmania seaside city like a sledgehammer

Richard Roberts
Passing through ... former Australian mining equipment manufacturing leader shifting base to Thailand

Passing through ... former Australian mining equipment manufacturing leader shifting base to Thailand

“There are thousands of households in the region which rely on Caterpillar in one way or another,” Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Tasmanian secretary John Short told local media. Burnie mayor...

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