Retirement Plans

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Retirement Plans

Retirement Plans

(14)         Retirement Plans

We have defined benefit pension plans covering many of our employees, including certain employees in Germany and the U.K. The components of net periodic pension cost for these plans are as follows:

	Domestic Plan						Foreign Plans
	Three Months Ended September 30,						Three Months Ended September 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
Service cost	$	91		$	87		$	162		$	133
Interest cost	812			864			448			424
Expected return on plan assets	(1,125		)	(1,048		)	(105		)	(89		)
Amortization of prior service cost (credit)	28			28			(13		)	(13		)
Amortization of net loss	542			489			29			48
Net periodic pension cost	$	348		$	420		$	521		$	503

	Domestic Plan						Foreign Plans
	Nine Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2011			2010			2011			2010
Service cost	$	272		$	262		$	484		$	452
Interest cost	2,438			2,592			1,337			1,285
Expected return on plan assets	(3,275		)	(3,145		)	(317		)	(256		)
Amortization of prior service cost (credit)	85			84			(39		)	(26		)
Amortization of net loss	1,626			1,467			87			128
Net periodic pension cost	$	1,146		$	1,260		$	1,552		$	1,583

We were not required to make any contributions to our domestic pension plan in 2011. We have made payments of $2.6 million to this plan as of September 30, 2011, but do not anticipate making any more contributions this year. Our anticipated contributions to the pension plan of our U.K. subsidiary approximate $0.7 million for the current year. As of September 30, 2011, we have made contributions of $0.6 million to this plan. The pension plans of our German entities do not hold any assets and use operating cash to pay participant benefits as they become due. Expected 2011 benefit payments under these plans are $1.2 million, of which $0.9 million was paid through September 30, 2011.

We provide postretirement life insurance benefits to a limited number of certain eligible hourly retirees and their dependents. The activity in this plan is not material to the condensed consolidated financial statements.