Company: MWA
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001350593-25-000066
Chunk: 297

Company: Mueller Water Products, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 297
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 adverse effect on us and our customers, suppliers, logistics providers, distributors and other channel partners.  The threat of terrorism and heightened security and military action in response thereto, or any other current or future acts of terrorism, wars, including the Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars, and other events, including economic sanctions and trade restrictions, have disrupted the world’s economies and may cause further disruptions that could negatively impact our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our Krausz business includes a manufacturing facility in Ariel, Israel.  In response to the operational challenges created by the Israel-Hamas war, we modified our Krausz operations. Such modifications may continue to adversely impact our operating results. If the current Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement fails, additional restrictions and other governmental actions could increase the severity of the impact on our operations in Israel and could materially adversely affect our business.  A severe disruption to our business may result in significant lost sales and may require substantial recovery time and expenditures to resume operations.

Additionally, if the current Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement fails and there is additional loss of infrastructure and utilities services, such as energy, transportation, or telecommunications, plant closures and employee concerns in our Krausz business, we could experience increased costs and other negative financial impacts.  If such disruptions result in delays or cancellations of customer orders or the manufacture or shipment of our products, our business, operating results and financial condition could be materially adversely affected.

Other risks related to our business

Our business, operations and markets, and those of our suppliers, business partners and customers, may be adversely affected by current and future outbreaks of infectious diseases or other health crises.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting impact on global economies created a number of macroeconomic challenges that impacted our business, including volatility and uncertainty in business planning, disruptions in global supply chains, material, freight and labor inflation, shortages of and delays in obtaining certain materials and component parts and labor shortages. 

Future outbreaks of infectious diseases may result in widespread or localized health crises that adversely affect general commercial activity and the economies and markets of the countries and localities in which we operate, sell and purchase goods and services.  Any outbreak of infectious disease poses the risk that we or our employees, contractors, suppliers, customers, transportation providers and other business partners may be prevented or impaired from conducting ordinary business activities for an indefinite period of time, including self-imposed facility shutdowns to protect the health and well-being of our employees or government-mandated shutdowns.  In addition, our suppliers, business partners