50 | Business World Magazine |
November 2013
EVOLVING EXCELLENCE
Fredon’s capabilities have evolved through
Sustar’s guidance and adherance to princi-
ples of integrity, accountability and respect.
While self-effacing and quick to credit the
support he has received from his staff and
colleagues in industry, Sustar’s professional
character and values have certainly attribut-
ed to Fredon’s positioning as a trusted sup-
plier of machined parts. Sustar started the
company not long after being honorably dis-
charged from the U.S. Army, an experience
that found him stationed in Germany during
the height of the Berlin Crisis. After return-
ing home, he would marry the very woman
that picked him up from the airport and go
on to raise a son and daughter. His father
was a machinist, and Sustar’s goals at that
time were proving to his father that he too
could run a successful business. He enrolled
at a university for a time, but says after failing
in the diagramming of English sentences, he
opted to pursue a different path. His entry
into the Machine Trades Industry occurred
in 1965 when he landed a job with a com-
pany known as Non Ferrous Metals Fab-
ricating. Four years later, a colleague of his
father’s contacted him with an opportunity
to invest an ownership stake in a metal fab-
Roger
Sustar
