Headwaters Incorporated improves sustainability by transforming underutilized resources into valuable products. Headwaters is a diversified growth company providing products, technologies and services to the energy, construction and home improvement industries. Through its energy, coal combustion products, and building products businesses, the Company earns a revenue stream that helps to provide capital to expand and acquire synergistic new business opportunities.
The Company is the industry leader in managing and marketing coal combustion products ("CCPs") in the United States. Headwaters is also developing and commercializing proprietary technologies to convert or upgrade fossil fuels into higher-valued products. The Company rolled out its new coal cleaning business in the fall of 2007, and its heavy oil upgrading technology (HCATTM) represents a breakthrough in processing heavy oil into lighter distillates, such as diesel fuel.
Headwaters Building Products segment manufactures, distributes and sells manufactured stone, blocks, manufactured slate roofing tile, and specialty molded siding accessories. Headwaters has a number one market position in all of its key niches.
