Headwaters Incorporated, a building products company, provides products and services in the light and heavy building materials sectors primarily in the United States and Canada. The company’s Light Building Products segment designs, manufactures, and sells siding accessories, such as decorative window shutters, gable vents, mounting blocks for exterior fixtures, roof ventilation, specialty siding products, synthetic roofing tiles, and window well systems; professional tools, including portable cutting and shaping tools; manufactured architectural stone products; and concrete-based masonry products, such as standard grey blocks, split faced blocks, ground face blocks, polished blocks, and textured blocks. It sells its products under the Tapco Integrated Tool Systems, Mid-America Siding Components, Builders Edge, Atlantic Premium Shutters, Vantage, The Foundry, InSpire, WellCraft, MHP, and Tapco brands, as well as under the Eldorado Stone, StoneCraft, and Dutch Quality Stone brands. This segment distributes its products through a network of distributors, including masonry and stone suppliers, roofing and siding material distributors, fireplace suppliers, and other contractor specialty stores, as well as through national and regional retail home centers and direct sales. Its Heavy Construction Materials segment markets coal combustion products (CCP), including fly ash that is used as a replacement for Portland cement in various concrete applications, including infrastructure, commercial, and residential construction; and provides CCP disposal services, as well as services to electric utilities related to the management of CCPs. This segment markets and disposes its fly ash through approximately 1,130 rail cars and 150 road licensed trucks. The company’s Energy Technology segment engages heavy oil upgrading processes, and the liquefaction of coal into liquid fuels. Headwaters Incorporated was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in South Jordan, Utah.

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