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Restructuring Activities
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Restructuring Activities

9. Restructuring Activities

Green River, Wyoming

During the first quarter of 2011, the Company announced its decision to relocate a portion of its Green River, Wyoming operations to a newly leased site in Victorville, California (the “Victorville Facility”). The Company relocated its cat litter manufacturing operations and distribution center to the Victorville Facility to be closer to transportation hubs and its west coast customers. The Victorville Facility began producing liquid laundry detergent and cat litter during the second quarter of 2012, and is expandable to meet future business needs. The Company’s sodium bicarbonate operations and other consumer product manufacturing will remain at the Green River facility.

The Company invested approximately $11 in 2011 and $26.5 in 2012 for a total of approximately $37.5 in capital expenditures in connection with the Victorville Facility. In connection with the opening of the Victorville Facility and changes at the Green River facility, the Company incurred transition expenses such as severance costs, accelerated depreciation of equipment at the Company’s Green River facility and one-time project expenses. The Company recorded approximately $0.7 of accelerated depreciation expense and $2.1 of other transition costs in cost of sales for the year ended 2012. The Company recorded approximately $2.3 of accelerated depreciation expenses and $1.2 of other transition costs in cost of sales for the year ended 2011. These expenditures were recorded in the Consumer Domestic segment. The expenditures related to the Victorville Facility or transition expenses related to the Green River restructuring during 2013 were immaterial.