SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Estimated useful lives of plant and equipment

Plant and equipment are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the assets’ estimated useful lives as follows:

	Years
Buildings and improvements	5 to 40
Machinery and equipment	3 to 36

Estimated aggregate amortization expense related to intangibles

The estimated aggregate amortization amounts from intangibles assets and liabilities for each of the next five years as of December 31, 2014 are as follows:

	Amortization Expense
	(In thousands)
2015	$	1,073
2016	1,073
2017	1,073
2018	1,073
2019	1,820

Anti-dilutive securities excluded from the calculation of earnings (loss) per share

The table below shows the number of shares that were excluded from the calculation of diluted loss per share because their inclusion would be anti-dilutive to the calculation:

	Years Ended December 31,
	2014	2013	2012
	(In thousands)
Convertible notes and securities	626	1,093	1,093
Restricted stock units, stock options, and SARs	537	805	978
Total shares excluded from diluted shares calculation	1,163	1,898	2,071