Company: MWA
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001350593-25-000066
Chunk: 142

Company: Mueller Water Products, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 142
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 metering solutions.  Residential and commercial water meters are generally classified as either manually read meters or remotely read meters via radio technology.  A manually read meter consists of a water meter and a register that gives a visual meter reading display.  Meters equipped with radio transmitters (endpoints) use encoder registers to convert the measurement data from the meter (mechanical or static) into an encrypted digital format which is then transmitted via radio frequency to a receiver that collects and formats the data appropriately for water utility billing systems.  These remotely or electronically read systems are either automatic meter reading (“AMR”) systems or fixed network advanced metering infrastructure (“AMI”) systems.  With an AMR system, utility personnel with mobile equipment, including a radio receiver, computer and reading software, collect the data from utilities’ meters.  With an AMI system, a network of permanent data collectors or gateway receivers that are always active or listening for the radio transmission from the utilities’ meters gathers the data.  Water Management Solutions sells both AMR and AMI systems and related products.  Our remote disconnect water meter enables the water flow to be stopped and started remotely via a handheld device or from a central operating facility.

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Manufacturing

See “Item 2.  PROPERTIES” for a description of our principal manufacturing facilities.  

We will continue to expand the use of Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma business process improvement methodologies where appropriate to safely capture higher levels of quality, service and operational efficiency in our manufacturing facilities in both segments.  

Mueller Water Products operates ten manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Israel and China. These manufacturing operations include foundry, machining, fabrication, assembly, testing and painting operations.  Not all facilities perform each of these operations.  Our existing manufacturing capacity is sufficient for anticipated near-term requirements.  Our new brass foundry in Decatur, Illinois, is operational, and we have closed our legacy brass foundry that was built in the 1900s.  Our iron foundries use both lost foam and green sand-casting techniques.  We use the lost foam technique for fire hydrant production in our Albertville, Alabama, facility and for iron gate valve production in our Chattanooga, Tennessee, facility.  The lost foam technique has several advantages, especially for high-volume, larger products, including a reduction in the number of manual finishing operations, lower scrap rates and the ability to reuse some of the materials while the green sand process is better suited for smaller, simpler