Company: MWA
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001350593-25-000066
Chunk: 143

Company: Mueller Water Products, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 143
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 parts.  Over the next few years, we intend to increase capital investments in our facilities to expand production capacity and enhance operational capabilities, including investment in our two iron foundries.

Additionally, we design, manufacture and assemble water metering products in Cleveland, North Carolina.  In Atlanta, Georgia, we design and support AMR and AMI systems in our research and development center of excellence for software and electronics.  Our facility in Jingmen, China, manufactures and assembles specialty valve products, and our facility in Ariel, Israel, designs, manufactures, and assembles repair products and solutions.  Our research and development center in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, designs and supports leak detection and pipe condition assessment products and solutions.  Product design and support for our intelligent water solutions products and services for pressure management are in Southampton, United Kingdom.

Purchased Components and Raw Materials

Our products are made using various purchased components and several basic raw materials that include brass ingot, scrap steel, sand and resin.  Purchased parts and raw materials represented approximately 35% and 8%, respectively, of Cost of sales in 2025.

Patents, Licenses and Trademarks

We have active patents relating to the design of our products and trademarks for our brands and products.  We have filed, and continue to file when appropriate, patent applications used in connection with our business and products.  Many of the patents for technology underlying the majority of our products have been in the public domain for many years, and we do not believe third-party patents individually or in the aggregate are material to our business.  However, we consider our proprietary information consisting of expertise and trade secrets relating to the design, manufacture and operation of our products to be particularly important and valuable.  We generally own the rights to the products that we manufacture and sell, and we are not dependent in any material way upon any third-party license or franchise to operate.  See “Item 1A. RISK FACTORS - Any inability to protect our intellectual property or our failure to effectively defend against intellectual property infringement claims could adversely affect our competitive position.”

Our brand names include:

Canada Valve™Centurion®Echologics®Echoshore®ePulse®Ez-Max®Hersey®Hydro Gate®Hydro-Guard®HYMAX®HYMAX VERSA®Jones®Krausz®LeakFinderRT®Milliken®Mueller®Mueller Systems®Pratt®Pratt Industrial®Repaflex®Repamax