Microsoft Word - 10.28.14 4th qtr FYE Earnings Release & Conf Call Announcement N E W S B U L L E T I N

FROM:

RE: Headwaters Incorporated

10701 S. River Front Parkway, Suite 300

South Jordan, UT 84095

Phone: (801) 984-9400

NYSE: HW

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

AT THE COMPANY:

Sharon Madden

Vice President of Investor Relations

(801) 984-9400

ANALYST CONTACT:

Tricia Ross

Financial Profiles

(310) 622-8226

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

HEADWATERS INCORPORATED SCHEDULES FOURTH QUARTER AND FISCAL YEAR END 2014 EARNINGS RELEASE AND CONFERENCE CALL SOUTH JORDAN, UTAH, October 28, 2014 (NYSE: HW) - HEADWATERS INCORPORATED, a building products company dedicated to improving lives through innovative advancements in construction materials, will announce earnings results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 2014, before the market opens on Tuesday, November 4, 2014. Following the release, Headwaters will host a conference call with a simultaneous webcast at 11 a.m. Eastern/9 a.m. Mountain Time to discuss the company's financial results and business outlook. The conference call will be conducted by Kirk A. Benson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Donald P. Newman, Chief

Financial Officer.

The call will be available live via the Internet by accessing the company's Web site at www.headwaters.comand clicking on the Investor Relations section. To listen to the live broadcast, please go to the Web site at least 15 minutes early to register, download and install any necessary audio software. Please note there will also be a short slide presentation that will accompany the webcast.

For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, an online replay will be available for 90 days on www.headwaters.com, or a phone replay will be available through November 11, 2014, by dialing 877-344-7529 or 412-317-0088 and entering the pass code 10054836.

About Headwaters Incorporated

Headwaters Incorporated is improving lives through innovative advancements in construction materials through application, design, and purpose. Headwaters is a diversified growth company providing products, technologies and services to the heavy construction materials and light building products industries. Through its coal combustion products and building products

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businesses, the Company has been able to improve sustainability by transforming underutilized resources into valuable products. http://www.headwaters.com/www.headwaters.com

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Headwaters' operations that are based on management's current expectations, estimates and projections about the industries in which Headwaters operates. Words such as "may," "should," "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "targets," "forecasts," "projects," "believes," "seeks," "schedules," "estimates," "budgets," "goals," "outlook" and similar expressions are intended to help identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include Headwaters' expectations as to the managing and marketing of coal combustion products, the production and marketing of building products, the sales to oil refineries of residue hydrocracking catalysts, the development, commercialization, and financing of new products and other strategic business opportunities and acquisitions, and other information about Headwaters which are not purely historical by nature, including those statements regarding Headwaters' future business plans, the operation of facilities, the availability of feedstocks, and the marketability of the coal
combustion products, building products and catalysts. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond the Company's control and are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. The reader should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Unless legally required, Headwaters undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements are: changing feedstock and energy prices;
actions of competitors or regulators; technological developments; potential disruption of the Company's production facilities, transportation networks and information technology systems due to war, terrorism, malicious attack, civil accidents, political
events, civil unrest or severe weather; potential environmental liability or product liability under existing or future laws and
litigation; potential liability resulting from other pending or future litigation; changed accounting rules under generally accepted accounting principles promulgated by rule-setting bodies; and the factors set forth under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and other periodic reports. In addition, such results could be affected by general domestic and international economic and political conditions and other unpredictable or unknown factors not discussed in this press release which could have material adverse effects on forward-looking statements.

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