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Customer Claims
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Commitments And Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Customer Claims

24. Customer Claims

In the fourth quarter of 2016, the Company established a reserve for two customer claims, which alleged that product manufactured by the Company may have caused performance problems with the customers’ products.  The combined amount of the reserve was $7,367,000, which was recorded as a reduction of net sales in the year ended December 31, 2016.  Both claims related to the Company’s Surfactant segment.  In the fourth quarter of 2017, the Company paid $2,709,000 for one of the claims and reversed the remainder of the reserve for the claim. The claim reversal was recorded within net sales. The second claim for $703,000 was paid in the second quarter of 2019 and was covered by insurance.