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Retirement Benefit Plans
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Retirement Benefits [Abstract]  
Retirement Benefit Plans Retirement Benefit Plans

The Company has a number of defined benefit pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans covering eligible salaried and hourly employees and their dependents. The estimated contributions to the Company's defined benefit pension plans for 2019 range from $15 million to $20 million, of which $12 million has been contributed through the first nine months of the year. The other postretirement benefit plans, which provide medical and life insurance benefits, are unfunded plans.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2019, the Company settled approximately $50 million of its pension projected benefit obligation by liquidating approximately $50 million in plan assets through a lump-sum disbursement made to an insurance company. Pursuant to this agreement, the insurance company unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees all future payments to certain participants that were receiving payments from the U.S. pension plan. The insurance company assumes all investment risk associated with the assets that were delivered as part of this transaction. Additionally, during the nine months ended September 30, 2019, the Company discharged certain U.S. pension plan obligations by making lump-sum payments of $13 million to former employees of the Company. As a result, the Company settled $63 million of projected benefit obligation by liquidating pension plan assets and recorded a non-cash settlement loss of $26 million related to the accelerated recognition of unamortized losses.

The components of net periodic benefit cost recorded in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations are as follows:
 
 
Pension benefits
 
Other postretirement
employee benefits
(in millions)
 
2019
 
2018
 
Three Months Ended September 30,
 
US
 
Non-US
 
US
 
Non-US
 
2019
 
2018
Service cost
 
$
—

 
$
5

 
$
—

 
$
5

 
$
—

 
$
—

Interest cost
 
2

 
3

 
2

 
3

 
—

 
1

Expected return on plan assets
 
(3
)
 
(6
)
 
(3
)
 
(7
)
 
—

 
—

Amortization of unrecognized prior service credit
 
(1
)
 
—

 
(1
)
 
—

 
(1
)
 
(1
)
Amortization of unrecognized loss
 
2

 
2

 
1

 
1

 
1

 
—

Net periodic benefit cost (income)
 
$
—

 
$
4

 
$
(1
)
 
$
2

 
$
—

 
$
—


 
 
Pension benefits
 
Other postretirement
employee benefits
(in millions)
 
2019
 
2018
 
Nine Months Ended September 30,
 
US
 
Non-US
 
US
 
Non-US
 
2019
 
2018
Service cost
 
$
—

 
$
14

 
$
—

 
$
14

 
$
—

 
$
—

Interest cost
 
7

 
9

 
6

 
9

 
2

 
2

Expected return on plan assets
 
(9
)
 
(17
)
 
(10
)
 
(21
)
 
—

 
—

Settlement
 
26

 
—

 
—

 
—

 
—

 
—

Amortization of unrecognized prior service credit
 
(1
)
 
—

 
(1
)
 
—

 
(3
)
 
(3
)
Amortization of unrecognized loss
 
4

 
7

 
3

 
5

 
1

 
1

Net periodic benefit cost (income)
 
$
27

 
$
13

 
$
(2
)
 
$
7

 
$
—

 
$
—


The components of net periodic benefit cost other than the service cost component are included in Other postretirement (income) expense in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.