Company: MWA
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001350593-25-000066
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Company: Mueller Water Products, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 Mr. Paul McAndrew as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective as of the Transition Date.

Water Flow Solutions

The Water Flow Solutions product portfolio includes iron gate valves, specialty valves and service brass products. Net sales of products in the Water Flow Solutions business unit were approximately 58% of fiscal 2025 consolidated net sales.

Water Management Solutions

The Water Management Solutions product and service portfolio includes fire hydrants, repair and installation, natural gas, metering, leak detection, as well as pressure management and control products and solutions. Net sales of products and services in the Water Management Solutions business unit were approximately 42% of fiscal 2025 consolidated net sales.

Business Strategy

Our business strategy is to capitalize on the large, attractive and growing water infrastructure markets worldwide.  Key elements of this strategy are as follows:

Improve operational excellence and expand capabilities.

We expect to make disciplined investments in our commercial and operational capabilities to drive additional performance improvements.  We are focused on improving operational excellence, increasing supply chain efficiencies and developing advanced manufacturing capabilities to drive productivity and increase domestic capacity across our facilities.  We expect these efforts will drive sales growth, improve product margins, and facilitate innovation and new product development.  Productivity improvements within our facilities are expected to drive cost reductions to support additional manufacturing initiatives and ongoing investment in product development.

Since 2018, we have prioritized capital investments to modernize our manufacturing facilities and processes, expand capacity and capabilities for domestic manufacturing and accelerate new product development.  We believe these investments will drive margin expansion by lowering costs, expanding our product portfolio, and improving product quality.  Our new brass foundry in Decatur, Illinois, is operational, and we have closed our legacy brass foundry, which was built in the early 1900s.  We expect these investments to support our domestic manufacturing capabilities for specialty and large valves and to capitalize 

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on the growing need for highly engineered valves required for water infrastructure projects.  Additionally, we expect these investments to drive operational efficiencies, expand capabilities for American-made products, advance our sustainability initiatives, and help accelerate product development.

Accelerate sales growth through enhanced customer experience and innovation.

We plan to continue to invest in process improvements to support our objective of being the preferred partner for our customers.  We are making disciplined investments in our commercial teams to enhance our customer experience to further differentiate us in the market and support our opportunities for net sales growth.  Expanding our systems and employee capabilities will allow us to improve our