Retirement Benefits

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2015

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Retirement Benefits

Retirement Benefits

The Company sponsors several qualified and nonqualified defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans and other postretirement plans for its employees. The following tables provide the components of net periodic benefit cost for its major defined benefit plans and its other postretirement plans.

	Pension Benefits
	Three Months Ended September 30,
	2015						2014
	U.S.			Non-U.S.			U.S.			Non-U.S.
Service cost	$	214		$	377		$	227		$	377
Interest cost	956			437			896			593
Expected return on plan assets	(1,186		)	(282		)	(1,219		)	(329		)
Net amortization	906			405			590			394
Net periodic benefit cost	$	890		$	937		$	494		$	1,035

	Pension Benefits
	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2015						2014
	U.S.			Non-U.S.			U.S.			Non-U.S.
Service cost	$	965		$	1,134		$	872		$	1,143
Interest cost	2,831			1,305			3,002			1,797
Expected return on plan assets	(3,682		)	(838		)	(4,035		)	(986		)
Net amortization	2,585			1,334			1,964			833
Net periodic benefit cost	$	2,699		$	2,935		$	1,803		$	2,787

	Other Postretirement Benefits
	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2015			2014			2015			2014
Service cost	$	168		$	178		$	506		$	535
Interest cost	208			233			626			699
Net amortization	(95		)	(118		)	(314		)	(355		)
Net periodic benefit cost	$	281		$	293		$	818		$	879

The Company previously disclosed in its financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014, that it expected to contribute approximately $1.6 million to its defined benefit plans and $0.5 million to its other postretirement benefit plans in 2015. The amount previously disclosed was based upon the Company’s minimum required contributions. During the first nine months of 2015, the Company made incremental discretionary contributions to its defined benefit plans. As of September 30, 2015, the Company now expects to contribute $6.1 million to its defined benefit plans and $0.7 million to its other postretirement benefit plans in 2015. The Company contributed a total of $5.0 million during the first nine months of 2015 to fund these plans.