Property, Plant, and Equipment

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

Note 7. Property, Plant, and Equipment

The various components of property, plant, and equipment were as follows:

	March 31,			December 31,
	2013			2012
Property, plant, and equipment
Buildings	$	130,367		$	130,250
Machinery and equipment	953,651			936,244
	1,084,018			1,066,494
Less: accumulated depreciation	(671,797		)	(627,937		)
Net depreciated value	412,221			438,557
Land	3,428			3,391
Construction in progress	13,872			18,708
	$	429,521		$	460,656

Excluding discontinued operations, the provision for depreciation and amortization was $49.7 million and $11.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The provision for depreciation and amortization for the three months ended March 31, 2013, includes $35.7 million in accelerated depreciation on equipment at our closed Brainerd, Minnesota mill.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets that are used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale. Examples include land, buildings, machinery and equipment, and other types of furniture and equipment including, but not limited to, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment and software. This disclosure may include property plant and equipment accounting policies and methodology, a schedule of property, plant and equipment gross, additions, deletions, transfers and other changes, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, net, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense and useful lives, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures.

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