Restructuring Charges

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Facility Closures

In December 2008, we announced that our Syracuse China manufacturing facility would be shut down in early to mid-2009 in order to reduce costs. The facility was closed on April 9, 2009. See Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 for further discussion.

The activities related to our closure of the Syracuse China manufacturing facility were complete as of March 31, 2011. We incurred charges of approximately $0.1 million in the three months ended March 31, 2011 related to other costs net of building site clean-up adjustments in connection with the sale of the property in Syracuse, New York in March 2011. This amount was included in special charges on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income as detailed in the table below.



	Three months ended March 31, 2011
(dollars in thousands)	Glass Operations		Other Operations			Total
Employee termination cost & other	$	—	$	167		$	167
Building site clean-up & fixed asset write-down	—		(116		)	(116		)
Included in special charges	—		51			51
Total pretax charge	$	—	$	51		$	51

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The entire disclosure for restructuring and related activities. Description of restructuring activities such as exit and disposal activities, include facts and circumstances leading to the plan, the expected plan completion date, the major types of costs associated with the plan activities, total expected costs, the accrual balance at the end of the period, and the periods over which the remaining accrual will be settled.

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