Headwaters Incorporated Schedules Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2009 Earnings Release and Conference Call

HEADWATERS INCORPORATED (NYSE: HW), a diversified growth company dedicated to improving sustainability by transforming underutilized resources into valuable products, will announce earnings results for the fiscal fourth quarter and year-ended September 30, 2009, before the market opens on Wednesday, November 4, 2009. 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 Steven G. Stewart, Chief Financial Officer. Also available on the call with be Jack Lawless, President of Headwaters Construction Materials, and Bill Gehrmann, President of Headwaters Resources.

The call will be available live via the Internet by accessing the company's Web site at www.headwaters.com and 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.

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, 2009, by dialing 800-642-1687 or 706-645-9291 and entering the pass code 38728825 .

About Headwaters Incorporated

Headwaters Incorporated’s vision is to improve 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 the capital to expand and acquire synergistic new business opportunities.

Forward Looking Statements

Certain statements contained in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws and Headwaters intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the safe-harbor created thereby. Forward-looking statements include Headwaters’ expectations as to the managing and marketing of coal combustion products, the production and marketing of building materials and products, the production and marketing of cleaned coal, the production and marketing of hydrogen peroxide, the licensing of resid hydrocracking technology and catalyst sales to oil refineries, the availability of refined coal tax credits, the development, commercialization, and financing of new technologies and other strategic business opportunities and acquisitions, and other information about Headwaters. Such statements that are not purely historical by nature, including those statements regarding Headwaters’ ability to repurchase all of the notes, Headwaters’ future business plans, the operation of facilities, the availability of feedstocks, and the marketability of the coal combustion products, building products, cleaned coal, hydrogen peroxide, catalysts, and the availability of tax credits, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding future events and our future results that are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and projections about the industries in which we operate and the beliefs and assumptions of our management. Actual results may vary materially from such expectations. Words such as “may,” “should,” “intends,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “targets,” “goals,” “projects,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” or variations of such words and similar expressions, or the negative of such terms, may help identify such forward-looking statements. Any statements that refer to projections of our future financial performance, our anticipated growth and trends in our businesses, and other characterizations of future events or circumstances, are forward-looking. In addition to matters affecting the coal combustion products, building products, and energy industries or the economy generally, factors that could cause actual results to differ from expectations stated in forward-looking statements include, among others, among others, the factors described in the “Risk Factors” section in Exhibit 99.2 of each of our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed September 17, 2009 and October 13, 2009.

Although Headwaters believes that its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions within the bounds of its knowledge of its business and operations, there can be no assurance that our results of operations will not be adversely affected by such factors. Unless legally required, we undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements for any reason. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Our internet address is www.headwaters.com . There we make available, free of charge, our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. Our reports can be accessed through the investor relations section of our web site.