HW Headwaters Incorporated (delisted)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 11, 2017

Registration Nos. 333-117492, 333-156794, 333-159541

UNITED STATES EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO

FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-117492

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO

FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-156794

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-159541

ON

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

HEADWATERS INCORPORATED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

87-0547337

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

10701 South River Front Parkway, Suite 300

South Jordan, Utah 84095

(801) 984-9400

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Ernest C. McLean

Senior Vice President and Secretary

Headwaters Incorporated

c/o Boral Industries Inc.

200 Mansell Court East #305

Roswell, GA 30076

(770) 645-4500

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies of all communications, including all communications sent to the agent for service, should be sent to:

Copies to:

Peter D. Serating

June S. Dipchand

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

4 Times Square

New York, NY 10036

(212) 735-3000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration statement.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box:  o

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box:  o

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

These post-effective amendments (the “ Post-Effective Amendments ”) relate to the following Registration Statements of Headwaters Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”) on Form S-3 (the “ Registration Statements ”), filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC ”):

·                   Registration Statement No. 333-117492, filed with the SEC on July 20, 2004, as amended by Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 thereto, filed with the SEC on October 26, 2004, Pre-Effective Amendment No. 2 thereto, filed with the SEC on December 13, 2004, Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 thereto, filed with the SEC on January 4, 2005, Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 thereto, filed with the SEC on February 3, 2005, Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 thereto, filed with the SEC on May 12, 2005, and Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 thereto, filed with the SEC on December 4, 2006,  registering up to $172,500,000 aggregate amount of debt securities and common stock in the Company;

·                   Registration Statement No. 333-156794, filed with the SEC on January 20, 2009, as amended by Amendment No. 1 thereto, filed with the SEC on January 22, 2009, Amendment No. 2 thereto, filed with the SEC on March 4, 2009, and Amendment No. 3 thereto, filed with the SEC on April 3, 2009, registering up to $63,286,000 aggregate amount of debt securities and common stock in the Company; and

·                   Registration Statement No. 333-159541, filed with the SEC on May 28, 2009, registering up to $27,370,000 aggregate amount of debt securities and common stock in the Company.

On May 8, 2017, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 20, 2016 (the “ Merger Agreement ”), by and among the Company, Boral Limited, an Australian corporation (“ Parent ”), and Enterprise Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“ Merger Sub ”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation and an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “ Merger ”).

In connection with the Merger and other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Company’s equity securities have ceased to be publicly traded and the Company is terminating all offerings of its securities pursuant to its existing registration statements under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including the Registration Statements. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company hereby removes and withdraws from registration all of its securities registered under the Registration Statements that remain unsold as of the date hereof, and terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statements.

The foregoing description of the Merger, the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the Merger Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit 2.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 21, 2016.

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 478 thereunder, the Company certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused these Post-Effective Amendments to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Roswell, State of Georgia, on this 11th day of May, 2017.

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