Serving the United States and Canada
Custom medium- and low-voltage switchgear, 480 V to 38 kV, built heavier and delivered as repeatable programs for data center, generation and utility clients across the United States and Canada. Nearly all of our business comes by referral.
Air-insulated metal-clad, gas-insulated and low-voltage gear for generation, interconnection, collector, data hall and process applications.
Finch is an original equipment manufacturer of medium-voltage metal-clad switchgear and low-voltage switchboards, and an integrator of complete medium- and low-voltage power packages. Finch Equipment Corporation is headquartered in Dallas; Finch Canada, based in Calgary, is our engineering and manufacturing company. Together we serve clients across the United States and Canada.
We are led by a team with a long track record in medium-voltage engineering and build. We work with a select client base and focus on repeatable, custom-engineered work for owners, contractors and engineers who value quality, schedule certainty and a direct relationship with the people building their equipment. We build for a select few long-term partners, and our business is almost 100 percent referral.
Helping clients scale in a challenging market is the core of what we do. We specialize in standing up long-term, repeatable programs, the kind the leading data center and generator companies have come to rely on to hold their delivery dates year after year.
Our manufacturing operation executed tens of millions of dollars in switchgear within months of launch, and our scope keeps growing with repeat clients in the United States.
We are executing on some of the top data center projects in the country, where high-count, repeatable delivery and held dates decide the outcome.
Our team has built to the standards of some of the most conservative utilities in North America, where engineering review and acceptance leave no room for shortcuts.
Our roots are in Canadian oil and gas, with switchgear delivered for majors and midstream operators in demanding field environments, then Texas, and now clients across the United States.
What we do differently
Our ethos is long-term partnership. We stand up repeatable programs, with identical lineups, dedicated build capacity and held dates, that the leading data center and generator companies rely on as they scale.
We take on the engineered, custom and program-scale work most large manufacturers aren't set up to do, from 7000 A and 63 kA generator lineups to 38 kV collector gear, and stay accountable for it from takeoff through factory acceptance test.
We qualify more than one breaker platform and select, or combine, platforms to fit each project's certification basis, duty, schedule, footprint and budget.
Scalable steel fabrication, copper bus and assembly labor let us run parallel build cycles and hold dates on multi-unit programs. Phased and partial deliveries are standard practice.
One partner for the medium-voltage lineup, transformer and 480 V distribution, engineered to coordinate and delivered as a package.
Finch is built on a deep bench. Our founders have led three switchgear manufacturers: two were sold to strategic buyers and the third went public. Those proven designs, methods and teams are the foundation Finch is built on.
Our heritage started in Canadian oil and gas, building switchgear for demanding field environments. That work quickly expanded to clients in Texas, and today we deliver for data center, power generation and utility clients across the United States and Canada.
Finch Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, leads sales, project management and customer support. Finch Canada is our engineering and manufacturing company: design engineering is based in Calgary, alongside the fabrication and assembly base behind our scale and cycle times. A new manufacturing facility in Calgary is coming soon, and our Dallas site handles final assembly and customer FAT testing on a per-project basis. In early 2027 we forecast expanding it into our first U.S. manufacturing location, adding capacity close to our U.S. programs.
Our team is split evenly between manufacturing know-how and hands-on field experience installing the gear, backed by deep engineering and design expertise. Many of us sat on the buyer's side of the table at the largest power companies in the country.
Licensed professional engineers with nearly two decades in power distribution, protection, and instrumentation and controls for oil sands, pipeline and utility facilities, starting in utility distribution engineering. Every lineup is designed, drawn and submitted in-house.
Leaders trained on the Westinghouse shop floor who have run switchgear plants from single lineups to full production, across design, assembly and factory test.
Red Seal journeyman electricians and field engineers, including years in Eaton's engineering services group designing and installing power distribution retrofits on live sites. We know how the gear has to arrive, set and energize, because we have done it.
Our leadership has developed, financed and operated power projects for the largest power companies in the country. We have been the buyer, so we understand the rigor it takes to carry a project from development to commercial operation.
North American supply position
Finished switchgear and switchboards assembled by Finch Canada qualify as North American origin and enter the United States duty-free under USMCA.
Where an owner excludes Chinese-origin equipment, we source breakers, transformers and components from North American, Korean and other allied-country suppliers, with component-level origin certification per unit.
Steel and copper come from North American mills. Breaker platforms carry U.S. or Canadian listings appropriate to the destination.
How a lineup is built determines how it performs over thirty years. These are standard on every Finch-built lineup.
No spot welding. Cells stay square and rigid through shipping, rigging and setting, and tolerate uneven pads.
Main and riser bus sized about 30 percent above rating, running cooler with margin for load growth.
Conductor spacing about 15 percent beyond required minimums, with insulated conductors as standard, not an upgrade.
We control the quality of every joint and the schedule of every bus package.
Arc-resistant outdoor heritage. Our outdoor arc-resistant design draws on a lineage dating to 2005: arc-diverting outdoor construction, closed-loop cooling and three-stage filtration for dusty and high-heat sites.
Finch is not tied to a single breaker manufacturer. Eaton and HD Hyundai Electric are our two qualified platforms. On many programs the right answer is a combination, grouped by function in dedicated sections of the lineup. Either way, the structure, bus, wiring, relaying and testing are Finch.
| Dimension | Eaton | HD Hyundai Electric |
|---|---|---|
| Medium-voltage breakers | VacClad-W metal-clad with VCP-W-HD embedded-pole vacuum breakers, 5 to 38 kV, ANSI/IEEE basis. Generator-rated breakers (IEEE C37.013) for generator mains. | Vacuum breakers in 15 kV and 38 kV classes, 40 kA, on UL/IEEE and IEC bases. 3150 A available on the IEC basis. |
| Gas-insulated switchgear | Not offered | 38 kV compact GIS, 2000 A / 40 kA, single or double bus, turnkey for footprint-constrained sites and collector yards. |
| Low-voltage breakers | Magnum DS power circuit breakers. | UL-listed drawout air circuit breakers, 2000 to 6000 A, 85 to 100 kA. |
| Best fit | Generator mains, utility-standard metal-clad, Eaton-specified projects, arc-resistant lineups. | Standard-duty feeders and ties, schedule-driven programs, GIS, high-count LV switchboard programs. |
IEEE/UL or IEC, settled in writing before pricing, not after.
Positions requiring IEEE C37.013 go on generator-rated breakers.
Where breaker lead time is the critical path, we take the shortest route to a held date.
Where space is tight, 38 kV GIS replaces air-insulated gear at a fraction of the footprint.
4.16 to 38 kV, 1200 to 3150 A feeders and generator lineups to 7000 A, 150 kV BIL. 63 kA generator breakers at 15 kV class; 40 kA through 38 kV. Indoor, outdoor non-walk-in NEMA 3R and outdoor walk-in. Single bus, double bus and breaker-and-a-half. Arc-resistant per IEEE C37.20.7 available. Engineered to IEEE C37.20.2 and IEC 62271 as applicable.
38 kV compact lineups for collector, interconnection and generation-tie applications, supplied turnkey with Finch relaying and controls.
480 V and 416/240 V, 2000 to 6000 A, 65 to 100 kA, UL 891. Indoor or outdoor NEMA 3R/4, skidded or palletized with throat or bus-duct close coupling to the transformer.
MV switching, transformer and LV switchboard integrated and delivered as one coordinated block for repeatable campus and distributed-generation programs.
13.8 kV and 34.5 kV class pad-mount and substation transformers sourced and integrated with the switchgear, non-Chinese origin where required.
SEL protection and metering, SEL RTAC and SCADA interface, 125 VDC control, CTs and VTs, engineered to the owner's relay standards and settings philosophy.
Walk-in enclosures and e-house packages for space- and schedule-constrained sites.
When traditional supply chains can't support a project's date, we package bankable generation, from engines and turbines to lower-emission linear generators and fuel cells, with our medium- and low-voltage switchgear and transformer skids, integrated at a Finch facility or with one of our large generation partners in the United States or Canada.
Buying generation, transformation and distribution as one integrated package removes stacked markups and duplicated interfaces between vendors.
Equipment is coordinated, skid-mounted and tested together, so it arrives as fewer, larger pieces with fewer trades and terminations on site.
We source undervalued, bankable Korean and Indian OEM equipment with proven fleets when Western queues are booked out years ahead.
Gensets, reciprocating engines, gas turbines, linear generators and fuel cells
GSU, pad-mount and substation transformers on skids
Generator breakers, paralleling and collector lineups
480 V switchboards close-coupled to the transformer
Relaying, paralleling controls and SCADA interface
| Type | Unit size | Fuel | Best fit | Typical ship window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High-speed gensets | 0.5 – 3 MW | Diesel, natural gas | Standby, prime and bridge power; industrial and campus sites | 9 – 12 months |
| Medium-speed reciprocating engines | 5, 10 and 20 MW | Natural gas, dual-fuel | Modular prime power that phases with load; data center campuses to 600 MW+ | 12 – 24 months |
| Gas turbines | 80 – 198 MW | Natural gas | Baseload anchors for large campuses; simple or combined cycle | 18 – 24 months |
| Linear generators | Modular units, scaled to multi-MW | Natural gas, biogas, hydrogen blends | Lower-emission prime power; very low NOx, fuel-flexible, phases with load | Confirmed per project |
| Fuel cells | Modular units, scaled to multi-MW | Natural gas, biogas, hydrogen | Lower-emission prime power; quiet, low NOx, simpler air permitting | Confirmed per project |
Sizes and ship windows depend on OEM slot availability at the time of order and are confirmed in each proposal.
We also procure and integrate individual pieces of equipment when a project's standard supply chain can't make the date.
A documented Quality Management System structured to ISO 9001:2015, covering design control, externally provided processes, production, inspection and test. Available to customers on request.
Type-tested designs, full production and routine testing on every lineup, customer-witnessed factory acceptance testing, and support for NETA commissioning in the field.
Large custom MV programs typically run 40 to 42 weeks from release; standardized switchboard and feeder-heavy programs run shorter. Long-lead items are held with milestone releases so the site date is protected.
Finch is a new brand built by an established team, and that is the point. Too many buyers today are treated as an order number, with slow answers and lead times that keep slipping. We give every program a team that knows it by name, straight answers and a build schedule we hold. Behind that are decades of experience in infrastructure, manufacturing and the electrical industry, and a level of transparency most buyers are not used to from an equipment supplier.
Before award, during build and at test. Walk the floor, meet the people building your equipment, and see the work for yourself.
Dedicated build lines, staging and marshaling yards, and reporting cadences set up to mirror your execution process and installation sequence.
Clear status reporting, early notice of any risk to a date, and direct access to the people making decisions.
Beyond these projects, our team has supplied medium-voltage switchgear and power distribution for BP, Shell, Kinder Morgan, Pembina Pipeline and BC Hydro.
35 kV class metal-clad and gas-insulated switchgear for data center and generation campuses, 12.47 kV generation switchgear, and multi-unit 480 V switchboard programs for large-load sites. Customer references available on request.
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