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Delays spell disaster for RCR

Too big, too fast: The solar industry is littered with graves of companies that flew too high and were burnt by the sun. There will be no second rising for Australian EPC RCR Tomlinson, which learned that fortunes can fade with frightening alacrity in the PV project business.

By

Jonathan Gifford

12 Mar 2019

Sun Metals Solar Farm by RCR Tomlinson | Image: Cameron Laird/ RCR Tomlinson

It was a grand old dame of Australian engineering. RCR Tomlinson had expanded from two Western Australian industrial engineering companies to become one of the country’s leading EPC firms in energy, mining, and transportation infrastructure. Its rapid expansion into large-scale solar, however, proved its downfall.On November 22, 2018, RCR Tomlinson appointed McGrathNicol as administrators, with …

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