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Watts Water Technologies
US water products manufacturer (NYSE: WTS, HQ North Andover MA; ~$2B revenue); produces FlexiPEX brand PEX-b tubing and related fittings for residential and commercial plumbing. Watts uses the PEX-b (silane crosslinking) process, the most common and cost-effective PEX production method — PEX-b has higher crosslink density than PEX-a but less flexibility and memory. Watts Water Technologies is a broad-line water technology company making pressure regulation, flow control, and water quality products in addition to PEX tubing. FlexiPEX competes on price against Uponor and Rehau PEX-a, targeting the value-oriented segment of the residential plumbing market. Watts has US manufacturing operations and European production (primarily in Germany). Estimated US PEX market share: approximately 10-12%.
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Flow Control & Pressure Regulation
50%Water Quality Products
25%PEX-b Tubing & Plumbing (FlexiPEX)
15%Specialty Products & Drainage
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Origin2023
Watts Water Technologies traces to Watts Regulator Company, founded in 1874 in Lawrence, Massachusetts by Joseph Watts. Lawrence was one of the great planned industrial cities of 19th-century New England — built around the Merrimack River waterpower from the 1840s to house massive textile mills (the Lawrence Mills, Ayer Mills, and Pacific Mills employed tens of thousands of immigrant workers). Joseph Watts founded his valve and regulator company in the industrial infrastructure cluster that grew around the Lawrence mills. The 1912 Bread and Roses strike began in Lawrence textile mills — a landmark US labor history event — in the city where Watts had been manufacturing industrial valves for nearly four decades. Watts grew from pressure relief valves for industrial and residential boilers to a comprehensive water technology portfolio: pressure regulation, backflow prevention, water quality filtration, and PEX plumbing. The company rebranded from Watts Regulator to Watts Water Technologies in 2003 to reflect its expanded scope. A company founded to make pressure relief valves for New England mill steam boilers now supplies the pressure regulation and PEX plumbing for the commercial buildings and luxury residences that replaced those mills.
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