Mueller Water Products Inc

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. To meet longer-term capacity requirements and modernize some production facilities, we have expanded the large valve casting capabilities at the facility located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and added a new facility nearby in Kimball, Tennessee to expand domestic manufacturing capabilities for specialty large valves. Additionally, our new brass foundry in Decatur, Illinois, is operational and in the first half of our fiscal 2025, we expect to close our old brass foundry that was built in the 1900s. Our foundries use both lost foam and green sand-casting techniques. We use the lost foam technique for fire hydrant production in our Albertville, Alabama facilityand for iron gate valve production in our Chattanooga, Tennessee facility. The lost foam technique has several advantages over the green sand technique, especially for high-volume products, including a reduction in the number of manual finishing operations, lower scrap rates and the ability to reuse some of the materials.

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 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.