Watts Water Technologies Acquires Sea Tech, Inc.

    Business Editors/Manufacturing Writers

    NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 2005--Watts Water Technologies, Inc. (NYSE symbol "WTS") announced today that it has acquired Sea Tech, Inc. located in Wilmington, North Carolina in an asset purchase transaction.
    Sea Tech, which was established in 1995, provides cost effective solutions for fluidic connection needs. Sea Tech offers a wide range of standard and custom quick connect fittings, valves and manifolds and pex tubing designed to address specific customer requirements. Sea Tech has approximately $6 million in annual revenue.
    Watts Water Technologies' Chief Executive Officer, Patrick S. O'Keefe, commented, "We believe that the acquisition of Sea Tech provides us with the leading quick connect technology currently available in the market. This quick connect technology, along with Sea Tech's manifold systems, will expand our product offering in both the residential and commercial markets. Sea Tech currently addresses the marine, recreational vehicle, manufactured housing, water quality and agricultural markets."

    Watts Water Technologies, Inc. is a world leader in the manufacture of innovative products to control the efficiency, safety, and quality of water within residential, commercial, and institutional applications. Its expertise in a wide variety of water technologies enables it to be a comprehensive supplier to the water industry.

    This Press Release includes statements that are not historical facts and are considered forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements reflect Watts Water Technologies' current views about future results of operations and other forward-looking information. In some cases you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "should," "will" and "would" or similar words. You should not rely on forward-looking statements because Watts' actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of a number of important factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, the following: shortages in and pricing of raw materials and supplies including recent cost increases by suppliers of raw materials and our ability to pass these costs on to customers, loss of market share through competition, introduction of competing products by other companies, pressure on prices from competitors, suppliers, and/or customers, diversion of management's attention and costs associated with efforts to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, failure to meet the new requirements under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in a timely manner, the identification and disclosure of material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting, failure to expand our markets through acquisitions, failure or delay in developing new products, lack of acceptance of new products, failure to manufacture products that meet required performance and safety standards, foreign exchange rate fluctuations, cyclicality of industries, such as plumbing and heating wholesalers and home improvement retailers, in which the Company markets certain of its products, economic factors, such as the levels of housing starts and remodeling, impacting the markets where the Company's products are sold, manufactured, or marketed, environmental compliance costs, product liability risks, the results and timing of the Company's manufacturing restructuring plan, changes in the status of current litigation, including the James Jones case, and other risks and uncertainties discussed under the heading "Certain Factors Affecting Future Results" in the Watts Water Technologies, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 filed with the Securities Exchange Commission and other reports Watts files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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CONTACT: Watts Water Technologies, Inc. William C. McCartney, 978-689-6177 Fax: 978-688-2976

KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS NORTH CAROLINA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HARDWARE MANUFACTURING NETWORKING MERGERS/ACQ SOURCE: Watts Water Technologies, Inc.

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