TPO Tarpon Industries

Tarpon Industries, Inc. (AMEX:TPO), a manufacturer and distributor of structural and mechanical steel tubing and engineered steel storage rack systems, today announced that the company is beginning the second phase of shipping and installing storage racks for Cintas Corporation�s archival storage center in Westchester, Ohio. Multiple purchase orders make up the project which is valued at $1.3 million. Cintas Corporation, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs, and provides entrance mats, restroom supplies, promotional products, first aid and safety products, fire protection services and document management services for approximately 700,000 businesses. Cintas operates 350 facilities in the U.S. and Canada, including 14 manufacturing plants and seven distribution centers that employ more than 32,000 people, and has grown for 37 consecutive years, with fiscal 2006 sales of $3.40 billion. �Our SpaceRak� division continues to execute on our strategy of targeting regional and national companies that require custom-engineered products and first-class delivery, installation and service,� said James W. Bradshaw, chairman and CEO of Tarpon. �We are gaining traction with large national and regional accounts that require trusted partners who can react quickly to their business needs.� Tarpon Industries, Inc. Tarpon Industries, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiaries within the United States and Canada, manufactures and sells structural and mechanical steel tubing and engineered steel storage rack systems. 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.