Al Jennings, CEO & president

Al Jennings, CEO & president

EFCO

EFCO provides products, services and concrete forming solutions to the construction industry for the safe and efficient forming of concrete. Striving to become the concrete formwork supplier of choice worldwide, EFCO’s 85-year history exemplifies their core values of quality, innovation, integrity and super service.

Since 1934 and through the vision and passion of our founder, W.A. Jennings‚ EFCO has provided its customers a superior‚ value-added product backed by engineering, on-site training and customer service. With 26 district office locations in 13 countries, EFCO has partnered with thousands of contractors providing formwork for everything from box culverts and tunnels to commercial high rises and long-spanning bridges. EFCO supports these projects with equipment manufactured in our two plants. The largest is in Des Moines and the other in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada.

The largest source of pride for EFCO is its people — an expert engineering team‚ a dedicated field service team focused on customer productivity‚ and safety‚ and over 140 highly trained Territory Managers worldwide.

At its core, EFCO was formed by innovation and technology. Al Jennings, now Chairman and CEO of EFCO, was just three years out of college at ISU, an engineering graduate in 1956, when his father assigned him the task of programming EFCO’s first electronic digital computer, an LGP-30. This was a great step forward for EFCO by founder W. A. Jennings. Sixty years later (1959-2019) we are still at it, programming computer systems to control our own destiny.

As EFCO continues today to thrive with entrepreneurial computer-based successes, new products that meet the demands of our customers we have continued to grow and support the concrete construction industry. EFCO’s successes have been and continue to be finding a need and filling it with great engineering, manufacturing and field service unmatched in the industry.