Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions

The Company provides certain retiree health care and life insurance benefits covering certain U.S. salaried and hourly employees and employees in Canada. Employees are generally eligible for benefits upon retirement and completion of a specified number of years of creditable service. The Company’s policy is to fund the cost of these postretirement benefits as these benefits become payable.

Information related to the Company’s postretirement benefit plans was as follows:



	Year Ended December 31,
	2019						2018
	U.S.			Non-U.S.			U.S.			Non-U.S.
Change in benefit obligation:
Benefit obligations at beginning of year	$	25,633		$	21,981		$	34,824		$	24,242
Service cost	118			397			308			495
Interest cost	864			752			1,198			789
Actuarial (gain) loss	1,697			1,705			(9,227		)	(1,130		)
Benefits paid	(1,491		)	(570		)	(1,475		)	(495		)
Divestiture	(4,405		)	(1,513		)	—			—
Other	20			61			5			—
Foreign currency exchange rate effect	—			1,136			—			(1,920		)
Benefit obligation at end of year	$	22,436		$	23,949		$	25,633		$	21,981

Funded status of the plan	$	(22,436	)	$	(23,949	)	$	(25,633	)	$	(21,981	)

Net amount recognized as of December 31	$	(22,436	)	$	(23,949	)	$	(25,633	)	$	(21,981	)



	December 31, 2019						December 31, 2018
	U.S.			Non-U.S.			U.S.			Non-U.S.
Amounts recognized in the consolidated balance sheet:
Accrued liabilities	$	(1,686	)	$	(840	)	$	(1,830	)	$	(648	)
Postretirement benefits other than pension (long term)	$	(20,750	)	$	(23,109	)	$	(23,803	)	$	(21,333	)

Pre-tax amounts included in accumulated other comprehensive loss that have not yet been recognized in net periodic benefit (income) cost as of December 31, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:



	December 31, 2019					December 31, 2018
	U.S.		Non-U.S.			U.S.		Non-U.S.
Prior service credits	$	55	$	93		$	382	$	388
Actuarial gains (losses)	$	14,496	$	(7,753	)	$	21,779	$	(6,765	)

Pre-tax amounts included in accumulated other comprehensive loss that are expected to be recognized in net periodic benefit cost during the year ended December 31, 2020 are as follows:



	U.S.		Non-U.S.
Prior service credits	$	55	$	93
Actuarial gains (losses)	$	1,875	$	(536	)

The components of net periodic benefit (income) costs for the Company’s other postretirement benefit plans were as follows:



	Year Ended December 31,
	2019					2018					2017
	U.S.			Non-U.S.		U.S.			Non-U.S.		U.S.			Non-U.S.
Service cost	$	118		$	397	$	308		$	495	$	314		$	423
Interest cost	864			752		1,198			789		1,297			693
Amortization of prior service credit and recognized actuarial gain (loss)	(2,441		)	320		(1,672		)	308		(1,915		)	(15		)
Other	—			48		5			—		5			—
Net periodic benefit (income) cost	$	(1,459	)	$	1,517	$	(161	)	$	1,592	$	(299	)	$	1,101

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recognized a gain of $3,452 for the U.S. plan and net charge of $453 for the Non-U.S. plan, related to settlements and curtailments due to the divestiture of the Company’s AVS product line. See Note 5. “Divestiture.” The amounts are recorded in gain on sale of business in the consolidated statements of net income.

Plan Assumptions

Weighted average assumptions used to determine benefit obligations as of December 31, 2019 and 2018 were as follows:



	2019				2018
	U.S.		Non-U.S.		U.S.		Non-U.S.
Discount rate	3.15	%	3.05	%	4.20	%	3.65	%

Weighted average assumptions used to determine net periodic benefit costs for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017 were as follows:



	2019				2018				2017
	U.S.		Non-U.S.		U.S.		Non-U.S.		U.S.		Non-U.S.
Discount rate	4.20	%	3.65	%	3.55	%	3.40	%	3.95	%	3.70	%

The assumed health care cost trend rates used to measure the postretirement benefit obligation as of December 31, 2019 were as follows:



	U.S.		Non-U.S.
Health care cost trend rate	5.50	%	5.00	%
Ultimate health care cost trend rate	4.50	%	5.00	%
Year that the rate reaches the ultimate trend rate	2027		N/A

The sensitivity to changes in the assumed health care cost trend rates are as follows:



	Impact on service cost and interest cost			Impact on PBO as of December 31, 2019
1% increase in health care cost trend rate	$	245		$	4,279
1% decrease in health care cost trend rate	$	(191	)	$	(3,354	)

Expected Future Postretirement Benefit Payments

The Company estimates its benefit payments for its postretirement benefit plans during the next ten years to be as follows:



	U.S.		Non-U.S.		Total
2020	$	1,712	$	853	$	2,565
2021	1,690		966		2,656
2022	1,679		960		2,639
2023	1,648		963		2,611
2024	1,607		995		2,602
2025 - 2029	7,319		5,094		12,413

Other

Other postretirement benefits recorded in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets include $4,454 and $5,046 as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, for termination indemnity plans for two of the Company’s European locations.