REVENUE RECOGNITION

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

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REVENUE RECOGNITION

The following table presents the Company's Net sales disaggregated by product line:

	Three Months Ended June 30,				Six Months Ended June 30,
	2020		2019		2020		2019
Consumables	$	333,671	$	444,850	$	739,511	$	887,808
Equipment	257,056		332,158		553,207		648,374
Net sales	$	590,727	$	777,008	$	1,292,718	$	1,536,182

Consumable sales consist of electrodes, fluxes, specialty welding consumables and brazing and soldering alloys. Equipment sales consist of arc welding power sources, welding accessories, fabrication, plasma cutters, wire feeding systems, automated joining, assembly and cutting systems, fume extraction equipment, CNC plasma and oxy-fuel cutting systems and regulators and torches used in oxy-fuel welding, cutting and brazing. Consumable and Equipment products are sold within each of the Company’s operating segments.

Within the Equipment product line, there are certain customer contracts related to automation products that may include multiple performance obligations. For such arrangements, the Company allocates revenue to each performance obligation based on its relative standalone selling price. The Company generally determines the standalone selling price based on the prices charged to customers or using expected cost plus margin. Less than 10% of the Company's Net sales are recognized over time.

At June 30, 2020, the Company recorded $14,136 related to advance customer payments and $12,754 related to billings in excess of revenue recognized. These contract liabilities are included in Other current liabilities in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. At December 31, 2019, the balances related to advance customer payments and billings in excess of revenue recognized were $16,040 and $16,274, respectively. Substantially all of the Company’s contract liabilities are recognized within twelve months based on contract duration. The Company records an asset for contracts where it has recognized revenue, but has not yet invoiced the customer for goods or services. At June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, $34,817 and $33,566, respectively, related to these future customer receivables was included in Other current assets in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. Contract asset amounts are expected to be billed within the next twelve months.