‘100 weeks’ at EFTC closes as clouds gather

When he took the reins of Electronic Fab Technology Corp. two years ago, Jack Calderon’s first command was for the little Greeley manufacturing company to envision its future.

Its past up to that point was not much to look at. At year-end 1996, income per share of EFTC stock had slid from 9 cents in 1995 to a loss of 40 cents. Net income had plummeted from 1995’s modest $354,138 to a loss of $1.6 million. Net sales for the year were up, but gross profit was down.

“’96 was a terrible year, and ’97 was a fabulous year,” Brian…