Pension and Other Post-Retirement Benefit Plans

We sponsor pension and other post-retirement benefit plans that cover certain hourly and salaried employees in the United States and United Kingdom. Each of the plans are frozen to new participants. Our policy is to make annual contributions to the plans to fund the normal cost as required by local regulations.

The components of net periodic (benefit) cost related to pension and other post-retirement benefit plans is as follows:



	U.S. Pension Plans and Other Post-Retirement Benefit Plans						Non-U.S. Pension Plans
	Three Months Ended September 30,						Three Months Ended September 30,
	2018			2017			2018			2017
Service cost	$	—		$	33		$	—		$	—
Interest cost	418			449			265			289
Expected return on plan assets	(787		)	(671		)	(310		)	(302		)
Amortization of prior service cost	2			2			—			—
Recognized actuarial loss	69			89			126			122
Net (benefit) cost	$	(298	)	$	(98	)	$	81		$	109



	U.S. Pension Plans and Other Post-Retirement Benefit Plans						Non-U.S. Pension Plans
	Nine Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2018			2017			2018			2017
Service cost	$	—		$	100		$	—		$	—
Interest cost	1,254			1,346			821			845
Expected return on plan assets	(2,360		)	(2,013		)	(960		)	(882		)
Amortization of prior service cost	5			5			—			—
Recognized actuarial loss	206			268			393			358
Net (benefit) cost	$	(895	)	$	(294	)	$	254		$	321

We expect to contribute approximately $3.1 million to our pension plans and our other post-retirement benefit plans in 2018. As of September 30, 2018, $2.5 million of contributions have been made.