FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AFFILIATED STEEL & TUBE OPENS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA DISTRIBUTION CENTER

July 2008 – Ontario, CA – California based Affiliated Steel & Tube; a California stainless steel and metals distributor announced today the opening of its Northern California distribution center located in Modesto, California.

The opening of its Northern California distribution center will allow Affiliated Steel & Tube to better serve it’s clients in the region more efficiently and quickly. While Affiliated Steel offers the same product line in the region as it does In Southern California, it has extended it’s astm a269 and a270 stainless steel tubing supplies as Central and Northern California are heavily populated with the food and dairy processing plants who use the metals.

“I think it’s a great decision on Affiliated Steels part. They will be able to continue their growth while providing their Central and Northern California clients with quicker delivery times and more product options”, said Mario Jimenez, Northern California Regional Sales Manager.

In addition to their standard metal and stainless steel items, Affiliated Steel & Tube plans on adding stainless steel fittings to compliment its sanitary tubing products in both Southern and Northern California.

Affiliated Steel & Tube (www.affiliatedsteel.com) is a California metals distributor based in Ontario, California. Specializing in stainless steel, carbon, and aluminum, the company has grown in to a full service metal distributor offering value added services such as tube bending, production cutting, shearing, polishing, and many other services.