Company: MWA
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001350593-25-000066
Chunk: 146

Company: Mueller Water Products, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 146
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 transition to brands other than their historically preferred brands.  We believe our valves enjoy strong competitive positions based primarily on the extent of their installed base, product quality, specified position and brand recognition.  Our principal competitors for iron gate valves are McWane, Inc. and American Cast Iron Pipe Company.  The primary competitors for our service brass products are The Ford Meter Box Company, Inc. and A.Y. McDonald Mfg. Co.  Many service brass valves are interchangeable among different manufacturers.  For our specialty valve products such as butterfly, plug, and check valves, our principal competitors are DeZURIK, Val-Matic and McWane, Inc.

The competitive environment for many of Water Management Solutions’ products, including fire hydrants and gas repair products, is mature, and many end users are slow to transition to brands other than their historically preferred brands.  We believe that our fire hydrants enjoy a strong competitive position, primarily based on the extent of their installed base, product quality, specified position and brand recognition.  Our principal competitors for fire hydrants are McWane, Inc. and American Cast Iron Pipe Company.  We believe the markets for many of our repair products are open to product innovation.  Our current repair offerings are primarily focused on repairing, joining, and restraining water infrastructure piping systems, which consist of cast iron, ductile iron, and plastic pipe.  Our repair solutions are well-suited for each of these piping systems.  For our pipe repair products, we believe our brand names, including Krausz® and HYMAX®, are generally associated with premium products as a result of our patented technology and superior features.  Our primary competitors in the repair market are Romac Industries, Smith Blair, Viking Johnson, AVK Group, JCM Industries, and Georg Fisher Ltd.

The gas repair products we sell are primarily used on distribution lines.  Our primary competitors for these products are Smith Blair, T.D. Williamson, and A.Y. McDonald.  Water Management Solutions also sells water metering products and systems, primarily in the United States.  We believe a substantial portion of this market is in the process of transitioning from manually read meters to electronically read meters; however, we expect this transition to be relatively slow and that many end users will be reluctant to adopt brands other than their historically preferred brand.  Our principal competitors in water metering products and systems are Sensus, Neptune Technology Group Inc., Badger Meter, Inc., Itron, Inc. and Master Meter, Inc.  We