EFCO Forms Partnership with GPSEducation Partners

Mike and Ryan Budgins

FCO Finishing Press Release 08.2020 (002)   As we enter the 2020/2021 school year, EFCO Finishing announced in August it was partnering with GPS Education Partners.  This will allow the company to build its industry talent pools and future workforces using the unique youth apprenticeship program designed by GPSEd.  This is a  model that has …

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EFCO Finishing Coping with Coronavirus

Since mid-March, the routine has been anything but “business as usual” at EFCO Finishing.  Numerous impacts have been felt, as they have for all companies, due to the global economy basically shutting down.  Thankfully, most of our customers in manufacturing have been deemed essential by the government and the Department of Homeland Security, and EFCO, …

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October is Manufacturing Month!

Friday October 4th is Manufacturing Day in Wisconsin.  We celebrate manufacturing and product engineering and design this month as it is the backbone of our economy. For every one factory job, seven other jobs are created! Kurt Bauer of the WMC, or Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, shared his thoughts Thursday in a breakfast hosted by …

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Meet EFCO Finishing – Jim Pinkert and Duane Goetz

Chances are you have seen the EFCO truck making pickups and deliveries.  Sharing driving duties for us are two men, Jim Pinkert and Duane Goetz. And we could not be happier to have both representing us to customers and suppliers! Jim joined EFCO in January 2007 after 40 plus years at AT&T. He started out …

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Meet EFCO Finishing – John King

Meet EFCO Finishing's Production Manager JohnKing, a key part of our management team

If you’ve called or visited EFCO lately, it’s likely you’ve met our Production Manager John King. He started with us in August of 2017, the same month we made our move to our new facility in Menomonee Falls, and brings valuable experience to our team, having been in the industry for close to 30 years! …

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Meet EFCO Finishing – Mike D’Amato

Meet Mike D'Amato-EFCO Finishing's Custom Metal Polisher

Custom Polishing? Have you heard of it? In addition to the many finishing services that EFCO offers, one that doesn’t get talked about, or that is still a bit of a secret, is our custom polishing capability. We have a polisher on our team with over 33 years of experience in the industry – he’s …

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EFCO Finishing’s New Home Taking Shape

EFCO Finishing’s new metal finishing facilities in Menomonee Falls took some major steps towards completion this past week. The new concrete floor with drains in the new “wet room” has been finished, and will soon have our vibratory finishing and burnishing machines sitting on it! After the concrete grinding services, we just need that concrete …

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Vibratory Finishing at EFCO’s New Home

Work continues on EFCO Finishing’s new location on Fountain Boulevard in Menomonee Falls, and this past week, the vibratory finishing area took some huge steps towards completion. The area of the building that will house all the wet processes, including ball burnishing, had the concrete floor removed so a new floor with drains could be …

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EFCO Celebrates 70 Years “Committed to the Finish”

70 years is no joke. According to the Small Business Administration, the average lifespan of a business is about about eight and a half years. It’s safe to say that EFCO Finishing has surpassed the 8.5 year mark and is going strong. How does a company make it to that many years? By continually striving …

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Cathy

We have several jobs going on with EFCO at all times but one of the last hot ones (of which most are!) they got processed for us and special packed in only two days which was amazing and saved us from air freighting to our customer. Thanks!