Property, Plant and Equipment |
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Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Property, Plant and Equipment Disclosure [Text Block] | Property, Plant and Equipment The components of property, plant and equipment, net as of December 31, 2014 and 2013 were as follows:
Total depreciation expense was $50.8 million, $47.1 million and $43.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively. In conjunction with the spinoff, property, plant and equipment, including its related allowance for depreciation, was transferred from Timken to TimkenSteel in the second quarter of 2014. Prior to the spinoff, TimkenSteel capitalized interest allocated from Timken related to construction projects was $5.7 million, $10.8 million, and $4.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively. TimkenSteel recorded additional capitalized interest of $1.2 million related to its borrowings subsequent to the separation from Timken on June 30, 2014. |