QUESTAR ACQUIRED BY ADVANCED AEROSPACE FIRM


Questar Corporation, the Optical Innovators, founded in 1950 by Lawrence Braymer, has been acquired by Donald J. Bandurick, President and CEO of the National Engineering & Manufacturing Company, announced Questar President, Earlene J. Austin. NEMCO, located in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, manufactures metal parts and components which are synergistically compatible with Questar products. Much of Questar's technology and customer base already overlaps with Nemco's.

Douglas M. Knight, Sr., who first joined Questar in 1975, operated as President and later as Chairman. He will remain as Senior Consultant Research and Development.

Mr. Bandurick, Questar's new Chairman and CEO, believes that as the operating head of an advanced aerospace and power generator engineering and manufacturing design firm, he can augment Questar's production while at the same time enhance Questar's presence in the consumer and industrial fields.

At the settlement table, Mr. Bandurick said, "The continuation of Questar, which has been manufacturing and distributing to the world for over fifty years the 'finest small telescope ever made' in addition to advanced industrial and academic research instruments, now stands poised to expand its technology and research to its worldwide customer base."