Restructuring Charges

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]

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.

Since the activities related to our closure of the Syracuse China manufacturing facility were complete as of March 31, 2011, no additional charges were incurred for the three months ended September 30, 2011. We incurred charges of approximately $0.1 million in the nine months ended September 30, 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.



	Nine months ended September 30, 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

Fixed Asset and Inventory Write-down

In August 2010, we wrote down decorating assets in our Shreveport, Louisiana facility as a result of our decision to outsource our U.S. decorating business. See Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 for further discussion.

During the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2011, we recorded a $0.2 million and $0.3 million income adjustment, respectively, to special charges on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income in the Glass Operations segment. In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, we recorded charges of $0.2 million and $0.2 million, respectively, to write down inventory and spare machine parts. These amounts were included in cost of sales on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income in the Glass Operations segment.

The activities related to our write-down of decorating fixed assets and inventory were complete in the third quarter of 2011.

- Definition

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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