Restructuring Activities

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2013

Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]

Restructuring and Impairment Activities

Restructuring Activities

The Company incurred restructuring and impairment expenses of $0.7 million and $5.3 million in the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively, and $2.3 million and $24.0 million in the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

In the Paper segment, restructuring and impairment expenses were $0.4 million and $2.1 million during the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively, and $1.5 million and $20.0 million during the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. During the six months ended June 30, 2013, restructuring and impairment expenses primarily included $1.0 million related to severance and early retirement expenses in the French operations for ongoing accruals over the remaining service lives of affected employees related to previously announced actions and terminating a third-party printing agreement in Europe. For the six months ended June 30, 2012, expenses for the Paper segment were primarily related to the Company's amendment of a supply agreement with Philip Morris-USA, a subsidiary of Altria Group Inc. The amended agreement eliminated the Company's contractual commitment to stand ready to produce commercial quantities of banded cigarette paper even in the absence of firm orders. The Company considered these new terms to be a triggering event requiring evaluation of the recoverability of our Spotswood mill's banded cigarette paper production assets. Based on this analysis, which reflected management's assessment of the most likely future utilization of the mill, the Company in 2012 recorded a $16.9 million impairment charge to reduce the carrying value of these assets to their fair value.

Fair value was determined by using management's estimates of market participants' discounted future cash flows and independent appraisals of certain assets, both which are considered significant unobservable inputs, or Level 3 inputs. Management used significant judgment to develop assumptions, including forecasted sales volumes, allocation of certain overhead costs attributable to the Spotswood mill and weighted average cost of capital, based on historical and projected operational performance.

The Reconstituted Tobacco segment restructuring and impairment expenses were $0.3 million and $3.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively, and $0.8 million and $3.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. During both the three and six months ended June 30, 2013, restructuring and impairment expenses primarily related to severance and early retirement expenses in the French operations for ongoing accruals over the remaining service lives of affected employees related to previously announced actions. Expenses incurred during the three and six months ended June 30, 2012, were primarily costs associated with suspending construction of the RTL facility in the Philippines and related mothballing activities.

Restructuring liabilities were classified within Accrued expenses in each of the consolidated balance sheets as of June 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012. Changes in the restructuring liabilities, substantially all of which are employee-related, during the periods ended June 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012 are summarized as follows ($ in millions):

	Six Months Ended			Year Ended
	June 30, 2013			December 31, 2012
Balance at beginning of year	$	3.4		$	7.3
Accruals for announced programs	2.3			2.6
Cash payments	(1.5		)	(6.4		)
Exchange rate impacts	(0.2		)	(0.1		)
Balance at end of period	$	4.0		$	3.4