Annadale Finishing Systems serves clients across Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, London, Windsor, North Bay, Sudbury, Toronto, Ottawa, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Kelowna, Vancouver, and major centres in the United States.
Ray Young – system and sales design
Ray Young founded Annadale back in 1984 and is based in Cambridge, Ontario. Finishing Equipment has been part of Ray’s life for as long as he can remember. He learned and worked with his father who owned Young Spray Equipment. Ray believes Annadale is the only option that not only builds to application needs, but assist customers in defining their needs and provides cost effective, creative solutions. When Ray is not busy helping clients, you can find him touring in his sports car, doing yard work or spending time with his family.
Ron Kovachik – Central Ontario Sales Manager
Ron has over 30 years experience in the industrial finishing business with over 20 of those years with Annadale. He draws on this experience to provide solid, ROI based solutions for your needs. He enjoys sports and spending time up north.
Tim Berenz – Western Ontario Sales Manager
Tim is our Western Ontario Sales Manager based in Southwestern Ontario and has been with Annadale for 11+ years total. Tim takes pride in Annadales commitment to helping customers increase profits, minimize costs, and increase productivity with coating equipment applications. Some stand out suppliers to Tim are Global Finishing solutions, Graco, and Parker Ionics. Tim has been married for 26 years and is a proud father to a daughter who just graduated from the University of Windsor.
Don Pelle – Abrasive Surface Prep Specialist
Don has over 40 years of experience in the Surface Preparation Industry. Both Technical Services and Capital Equipment Sales. Manual Grit Blast Systems and Automated Blast Cleaning Systems are his specialty. Don is committed to helping customers choose the right System and System Components to meet their specific applications, process requirements and budget. Don has earned the trust of his customers and maintained strong client relationships. He attributes his success to his ability to listen to customers and put their needs and requirements first.
Kevin Bramer – Service Manager
Kevin has been a key part of the Annadale team for over 15 years. His 30 years of experience in the finishing business have given him a breadth of knowledge and the ability to troubleshoot, repair and help plan solutions for our customers. Kevin runs the Service Department, doing repairs, fabricating solutions, conducting service calls and overseeing the on -site management of trades for new installations.
Grace Dahmer – Office Manager
Grace Dahmer is our customer service / office manager and usually your first point of contact with Annadale when contacting us in Cambridge. She has been with the company for over 20 years and has seen a lot of changes and met many different and unique personalities thru the years. She likes to keep busy with a variety of tasks from processing orders, maintaining the accounting system, to shipping/receiving when needed. Away from work, Grace enjoys spending time with her family, especially her new granddaughter.
Mindy Ferguson – Vice-President
Brings 25 years of not-for-profit management skills to Annadale. After taking a break to focus on their four children, she was ready to take on the challenge of being a full partner with John in Annadale. Mindy takes the lead in Finance and Human Resources, and also manages our Order Desk, doing customer service, shipping/receiving and inventory management. Over the past four years, she has improved her knowledge of finishing products and enjoys the challenge of learning more about the industry.
John Ferguson – President
John is our President and is based in Cambridge, Ontario and has been with Annadale since 2017. John came to us from one of our key suppliers, Graco. He worked with Annadale as one of Graco’s customers and obviously liked what he saw. John is very proud of the feedback we receive from customers and agrees; “Annadale provides the best value industrial coating systems in the finishing industry.” One of Johns favourite parts of his job is that no two days are the same. There are always different processes to evaluate and options to provide. In his spare time, John enjoys golfing, curling, and spending time with his family, especially his new granddaughter.