Retirement Benefits

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

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 March 31,
	2019						2018
	U.S.			Non-U.S.			U.S.			Non-U.S.
Service cost	$	208		$	464		$	254		$	545
Interest cost	764			365			653			361
Expected return on plan assets	(801		)	(264		)	(983		)	(290		)
Net amortization	487			284			685			330
Net periodic benefit cost	$	658		$	849		$	609		$	946



	Other Postretirement Benefits
	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2019			2018
Service cost	$	140		$	168
Interest cost	212			203
Net amortization	(159		)	(184		)
Net periodic benefit cost	$	193		$	187

The Company previously disclosed in its financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2018, that it expected to contribute approximately $0.6 million to its defined benefit plans and $1.1 million to its other postretirement benefit plans in 2019. During the first three months of 2019, the Company contributed a total of $0.1 million to fund these plans.