BATON ROUGE, LA - Turner Industries Group showed their support for the ARC (Association of Retarded Citizens) Baton Rouge by once again participating as a team sponsor in their Plane Pull Festival at Baton Rouge Metro Airport on October 17, 2009. The ARC Baton Rouge is a non-profit organization focused on enhancing the quality of life for individuals with disabilities and their families.

The Plane Pull Festival is a full day event complete with music, games, food, and fun. The main event, pulling a seventy-three ton jet, is a timed team event. The team that pulls the jet a distance of twelve feet, with the best time, wins the challenge. The most enthusiastic team is also acknowledged and, in good spirits, so is "Slowest Pull"! The day is all for good fun and supports a great organization. ARC uses the event to raise funds and awareness that "people with intellectual and developmental disabilities...must be treated with dignity and respect."

Since 1961, Turner Industries Group, LLC has provided a single vendor solution in heavy industrial construction, maintenance, pipe, module and vessel fabrication, equipment, rigging, heavy hauling, and associated specialty services.

Privately owned by the Turner family, and headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the company has annual revenues in excess of $1.7 billion, Turner Industries employs over 15,000 employees at its facilities across the gulf south and jobsites throughout the United States and abroad. Turner is recognized by Engineering News-Record as the largest maintenance contractor in the United States. More information is available at www.turner-industries.com.