Quality First Associates, LLC Growth

Rasing $140K to acquire a well established equipment sales company to expand the current equipment sales strategy.

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To be a good Quality Service provider, you must be a believer in quality. That means that no matter what service you are providing, or what product you are delivering, you are putting forth every effort to ensure that product is delivered to the requirements of your customer and that is priority number one.

That is currently and will always be priority number one for Quality First Associates! 

Currently, primarily a Nondestructive Testing consulting company with some related small equipment and materials sales.  Looking to expand the equipment and materials sales portion of the business.  Quality First Associates, (Q1A) serves as the parent LLC Company.  Currently combining the resources of the associate company, Cooper NDT, a DBA of Q1A to provide quality services as well as materials and quality related equipment.   Cooper NDT operates as a “DBA” Focusing on Nondestructive Testing Consulting in all industries, but service to focus on the Aerospace Industry as there are currently approvals in place for Cooper NDT in the Aerospace Sector.  Future plans to expand into other industries.  Any calibration, equipment, materials, Quality Assurance / Quality Control related auditing and training will be provided directly by Q1A.  This current growth project is to acquire an existing equipment sales company that currently focuses on Quality Control related equipment sales and rentals. The goal is that it will be completely absorbed and re-branded as Q1A with some equipment manufactured as Q1A equipment.  This will increase the Q1A brand and greatly grow the sales end of the business.

The owner, Dwayne Cooper, A career Quality Processes individual with skills and experience to effectively manage and control many aspects of Quality Management.   

USAF Veteran
NDT professional since 1988
Experience in multiple industries: Aerospace, Oil and Gas, Fire Equipment, Power Generation, Paper and Pulp
ASNT Level 3 – Ultrasonic Testing, Magnetic Particle Testing, Liquid Penetrant Testing
NAS 410 Level 3 – Ultrasonic Testing, Magnetic Particle Testing, Liquid Penetrant Testing, Radiography Testing (Film and Non-Film)
Quality Management Systems Lead Auditor
Nadcap Lead Auditor (Aerospace Quality Systems and NDT)
NDI (comparable to a NDT Level 2).


Current Goals to further expand Q1A’s services, building the Q1A brand.

•Continuously improve to effectively and efficiently serve the customer base.
•Maintain all current relationships.
•Pursuing the acquisition of an existing Quality Control Equipment sales company currently based in Southwest Illinois.  This company has been established for more than  20 years in good standing.
•Presence in the FAA and space side of the aerospace industry. 
•Expand sales of equipment to include equipment manufactured with the Q1A brand. 

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