TPO Tarpon Industries

Tarpon Industries, Inc. (AMEX:TPO), a manufacturer and distributor of engineered steel storage rack systems and structural and mechanical steel tubing, today announced that its Canadian Manufacturing Division, Steelbank Tubular, has been certified and registered as compliant with the International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001:2000 international quality standard. This registration recognizes Steel bank�s commitment to product quality and excellence in customer service, engineering, and manufacturing processes. The ISO approval was recommended by Quasar, which managed the audit of the Steelbank facility. QUASAR is a Division of the CWB Group and is accredited by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) as a Quality System Registrar. The CWB, a sister division to QUASAR was formed in 1947 and is accredited by the SCC as a Certification Organization and a Testing Organization. QUASAR offers service from�six offices across Canada. "Tarpon has always made quality a top priority, and I am pleased that the International Standards Organization has awarded us the ISO 9001:2000 certification," said James W. Bradshaw, Chairman and CEO of Tarpon Industries. �The award gives further evidence to the progress we continue to achieve as our company grows its product mix and market share.� ISO 9001:2000 is an internationally accepted reference for business-to-business quality management requirements. Certification is granted to organizations that demonstrate their ability to consistently fulfill customers' quality requirements and applicable regulatory requirements. Tarpon Industries, Inc. Tarpon Industries, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiaries within the United States and Canada, manufactures and sells engineered steel storage rack systems and structural and mechanical steel tubing. The company's mission is to become a larger and more significant manufacturer and distributor of structural and mechanical steel tubing, engineered steel storage rack systems and related products. For more information, please visit Tarpon's website at http://www.tarponind.com. Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements made by Tarpon in this presentation and other periodic oral and written statements, including filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements, as well as statements which address operating performance, events or developments that we believe or expect to occur in the future, including those that discuss strategies, goals, outlook or other non-historical matters, or which relate to future sales or earnings expectations, cost savings, awarded sales, volume growth, earnings or a general belief in our expectations of future operating results, are forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are made on the basis of management's assumptions and estimations. As a result, there can be no guarantee or assurance that these assumptions and expectations will in fact occur. The forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to materially differ from those contained in the statements. Some, but not all of the risks, include our ability to obtain future sales, our ability to successfully integrate acquisitions, changes in worldwide economic and political conditions, including adverse effects from terrorism or related hostilities including increased costs, reduced production or other factors, costs related to legal and administrative matters, our ability to realize cost savings expected, inefficiencies related to production that are greater than anticipated, changes in technology and technological risks, foreign currency fluctuations, increased fuel costs, increased steel costs as it relates to our selling price, work stoppages and strikes at our facilities and those of our customers, the presence of downturns in customer markets where the company's goods and services are sold, financial and business downturns of our customers or vendors, and other factors, uncertainties, challenges, and risks detailed in Tarpon's public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Tarpon does not intend or undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.