Badger Meter Opens New Customer Experience Center

Badger Meter, Inc. (NYSE: BMI) today announced the opening of its new Customer Experience Center (CEC) located at its corporate headquarters in Milwaukee.

The new $5.5 million, 38,000 square foot facility showcases the company’s industry-leading technology, broad flow measurement product line and commitment to sustainability, and includes the largest indoor flowmeter testing facility in North America. The CEC also features a 300-seat auditorium and several training and conference rooms.

“The new Customer Experience Center shows how we can meet the flow measurement needs of our municipal water and flow instrumentation customers through an interactive experience focused on products, markets and capabilities. We want customers to see how our products are made and tested and why they are the best in the market,” said Richard A. Meeusen, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Badger Meter.

The theme of “Every Drop Counts” greets visitors to the center and highlights Badger Meter’s commitment to helping customers measure and monitor their sustainability initiatives, achieve process efficiencies and conserve natural resources.

Interactive touch-screen stations demonstrate how Badger Meter products enable customers to “Measure What Matters,” in key markets including municipal water, HVAC, chemical, food & beverage and oil & gas. Short videos tell the Badger Meter story from the perspective of its water utility and flow instrumentation customers and also describe the metering technologies used to monitor the company’s water usage and water conservation initiatives at its Milwaukee headquarters.

In addition to learning more about the company’s product portfolio, customers can also tour the indoor flowmeter testing facility used for product development and product testing. “Our engineering and testing capabilities are the foundation of our industry leadership. They ensure the accuracy and reliability of our products and the high quality of our manufacturing,” said Meeusen.

Meeusen said the new CEC will be used for customer meetings, training sessions and conferences, as well as for employee meetings, tours and local events. The renovation of existing space for the new facility also included creating a fitness center for company employees.

“Badger Meter has been headquartered in Milwaukee since its founding in 1905. We believe our investment in the new CEC is an investment in our company and our community that will benefit our customers, employees and shareholders for many years to come,” added Meeusen.

About Badger Meter

Badger Meter is an innovator in flow measurement, control and communications solutions, serving water utilities, municipalities, and commercial and industrial customers worldwide. The Company’s products measure water, oil, chemicals, and other fluids, and are known for accuracy, long-lasting durability and for providing valuable and timely measurement data. For more information, visit www.badgermeter.com.

Certain statements contained in this news release, as well as other information provided from time to time by Badger Meter, Inc. (the “Company”) or its employees, may contain forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “think,” “should,” “could” and “objective” or similar expressions are intended to identify forward looking statements. All such forward looking statements are based on the Company’s then current views and assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties. Some risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in forward looking statements include those described in Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 that include, among other things:

• the continued shift in the Company’s business from lower cost, manually read meters toward more expensive, value-added automatic meter reading (AMR) systems, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) systems and advanced metering analytics (AMA) systems that offer more comprehensive solutions to customers’ metering needs;
• the success or failure of newer Company products;

• changes in competitive pricing and bids in both the domestic and foreign marketplaces, and particularly in continued intense price competition on government bid contracts for lower cost, manually read meters;
• the actions (or lack thereof) of the Company’s competitors;
• changes in the Company’s relationships with its alliance partners, primarily its alliance partners that provide radio solutions, and particularly those that sell products that do or may compete with the Company’s products;
• changes in the general health of the United States and foreign economies, including to some extent such things as the length and severity of global economic downturns, international or civil conflicts that affect international trade, the ability of municipal water utility customers to authorize and finance purchases of the Company’s products, the Company’s ability to obtain financing, housing starts in the United States, and overall industrial activity;
• unusual weather, weather patterns or other natural phenomena, including related economic and other ancillary effects of any such events;
• the timing and impact of government funding programs that stimulate national and global economies, as well as the impact of government budget cuts or partial shutdowns of governmental operations;
• changes in the cost and/or availability of needed raw materials and parts, such as volatility in the cost of brass castings as a result of fluctuations in commodity prices, particularly for copper and scrap metal at the supplier level, foreign-sourced electronic components as a result of currency exchange fluctuations and/or lead times, and plastic resin as a result of changes in petroleum and natural gas prices;
• the Company’s expanded role as a prime contractor for providing complete technology systems to governmental entities, which brings with it added risks, including but not limited to, the Company’s responsibility for subcontractor performance, additional costs and expenses if the Company and its subcontractors fail to meet the timetable agreed to with the governmental entity, and the Company’s expanded warranty and performance obligations;
• the Company’s ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses or products;
• changes in foreign economic conditions, particularly currency fluctuations in the United States dollar, the Euro and the Mexican peso;
• the inability to develop technologically advanced products;
• the failure of the Company’s products to operate as intended;
• the inability to protect the Company’s proprietary rights to its products;
• disruptions and other damages to information technology and other networks and operations due to breaches in data security;
• transportation delays or interruptions;
• the loss of certain single-source suppliers; and
• changes in laws and regulations, particularly laws dealing with the content or handling of materials used in the Company’s products.

All of these factors are beyond the Company's control to varying degrees. Shareholders, potential investors and other readers are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward looking statements contained in this news release are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward looking statements. The forward looking statements made in this document are made only as of the date of this document and the Company assumes no obligation, and disclaims any obligation, to update any such forward looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

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