Your trusted provider of guaranteed American-made waterworks products.
McWane employs more than 4,000 team members who safely and sustainably manufacture ductile iron pipe, soil pipe, fittings, hydrants and valves in facilities here in the United States. Our products comprise the backbone of the vital water distribution and wastewater treatment systems throughout North America and dependably provide the United States with clean drinking water.
McWane is committed to American workers and American industry. At a time when many of our competitors have moved their manufacturing operations overseas or elected to import foreign products at the expense of American jobs, McWane has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to modernize its U.S. plants and make them safe, efficient and compliant with the world’s most demanding regulatory regime. In doing so, it has created and preserved thousands of well-paying American jobs and the futures of many communities.
U.S. taxpayer dollars should not be used to reward those companies that have moved their operations, investment dollars and jobs to foreign countries, nor should they be used to purchase iron products cast in foreign foundries that completely disregard environmental, worker and workplace safety regulations. Rather, taxpayer-financed federal aid programs — particularly those administered by the federal agency charged with protecting the environment — should give a commonsense preference for American-manufactured products in infrastructure projects. Such preferences ensure that companies and workers who play by the rules can compete on an even playing field to supply these taxpayer-financed infrastructure projects.
Buying American means reinvesting U.S. tax dollars in the U.S. economy. Buying American means preserving and creating jobs here in the United States. Buying American is good public policy and is simply the right thing to do.
If you have specific questions, we encourage you to contact us. You can also view our full list of American-made product offerings here.
If this issue is important to you, please contact your member of congress.
Why Buy American?
Strengthen Your Economy and Preserve Your Environment.
Unfair competition from foreign producers threatens the future of American manufacturers and workers while destroying our environment. Reports show that Buying American helps to strengthen the economy, creates new jobs and promotes responsible, environmental practices. Read a more thorough investigation about the benefits of Buying American below.
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Understanding the "Buy America" Requirements for Water Infrastructure Projects
Since 2014, the U.S. Congress has on multiple occasions passed legislation that supports the jobs of thousands of hard-working Americans. This legislation requires that all iron and steel products used in water infrastructure projects funded by the Drinking Water and Clean Water State Revolving Funds and Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program must be produced in the United States. McWane is your go-to source for the high-quality domestic iron products that comply with these requirements.
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Buying American, Supporting the Economy
This document describes how unfair competition from foreign producers threatens the future of American manufacturers and workers, while at the same time destroying our environment. Our tax dollars should be used to Buy American-manufactured goods for taxpayer-financed projects, thus creating and preserving millions of high-paying jobs, slowing the migration of jobs and investment to other countries and protecting our environment for future generations.
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Buy American, Buy McWane
McWane is the leader of the waterworks manufacturing industry, setting standards nationwide for sustainable manufacturing processes that protect American jobs, the environment and the health and safety of its team members. This report describes some of McWane’s efforts.
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Made in China: The Threat to our Environment
This report details the devastating impact on the environment resulting from the migration of manufacturing jobs and operations overseas. Chinese iron foundries and steel mills generate significantly greater pollution for each ton of castings shipped than a foundry in the United States and pose an immediate threat to the environment here in the United States.
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Americans Overwhelmingly Support Buying American
A recent and extensive bipartisan survey, sponsored by the Alliance for American Manufacturing, demonstrates that more than 90% of American voters support Buy American policies and rank jobs as their top priority for Washington (even over the deficit). This report outlines the details of those survey results.
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Buy America Works
Buy America is a proven job creation tool that is broadly supported by Congress, the American people and hundreds of local governments throughout the United States. Buy America provisions should continue to be utilized in infrastructure and other spending bills so that our manufacturing base can thrive and so that more Americans can earn a paycheck and contribute to the overall welfare of the nation. This report contains numerous stories describing the success of "Buy America" requirements in both saving or creating manufacturing jobs and capacity in the midst of a severe economic downturn.