SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Lentz Robert F (Last) (First) (Middle) 1127 EMERALD DUNES DRIVE (Street) SUN CITY CENTER FL 33573 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 07/11/2012	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol SYPRIS SOLUTIONS INC [ SYPR ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Stock	1,000	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

	Andrea J. Luescher by Power of Attorney filed with this submission	07/19/2012
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY


	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of
 Anthony C. Allen, Andrea J. Luescher and John R. McGeeney, signing singly, the undersigned's
 true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer
 and/or director of Sypris Solutions, Inc. (the "Company"), a Form ID application for
 EDGAR access numbers and Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the
 Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be
 necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file
 such file with the United States Securities Exchange Commission and any stock exchange
 or similar authority; and

(3)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in
 the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally
 required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
 attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be
 in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may
 approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to
 do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done
 in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes
 as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
 revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-
fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of
 attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the
 foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not
 assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with
 Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no
 longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
 transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a
 signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
 executed this 7th day of April, 2012.


								/s/Robert F. Lentz
								Signature


							Robert F. Lentz
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