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Retirement Plans
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]  
Retirement Plans
Retirement Plans
 
The Company has six defined contribution retirement plans covering substantially all salaried employees and nonunion hourly employees. Two of the plans, covering United States employees, provide for annual contributions in amounts that the Board may authorize, subject to certain limitations, but in no event more than the amounts permitted under the Internal Revenue Code as deductible expense. The other four plans, covering the Company’s European and Canadian employees, require the Company to make contributions ranging from 3% to 15% of the employees’ compensation. The total cost for these retirement plans for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, was $8.0 million, $8.2 million and $7.7 million, respectively.
 
The Company also contributes to various industry-wide, union-sponsored pension funds for hourly employees who are union members and a statutorily required pension fund for employees in Switzerland. Payments to these funds aggregated $2.3 million, $2.2 million and $2.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

Withdrawal from Multi-Employer Defined-Benefit Pension Plan

Under the Company's collective bargaining arrangement with the tool and die craftsman and maintenance union, the Company has been contributing to a defined-benefit pension plan. In the second quarter of 2014, the Company and the union formally notified the defined-benefit pension plan administrator of their intent to withdraw from the plan. In the third quarter of 2014, the plan administrator responded by issuing a demand letter informing the Company that the annual withdrawal liability payment to be made by the Company was $145,400 and the payments were to be made in perpetuity.

Due to the amount and duration of payments, the Company was required to calculate and record a pension expense and liability based on the annual payments in perpetuity. The liability is included within long-term liabilities in the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheet. The Company discounted the payment estimate using a discount rate of 4.5%, which approximates the credit-adjusted risk-free rate for the Company at December 31, 2014. The Company recorded a long-term liability of $3.3 million and recorded a corresponding defined-benefit expense in cost of sales. On a quarterly basis, the Company will re-evaluate the number of years that payments are required and the discount rate used to calculate the long-term liability and adjust it as facts and circumstances change. All adjustments to the long-term liability will be charged to cost of sales in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. Because of the funding status of the plan, the annual withdrawal liability payments will be recorded as interest expense on the long-term liability until such time as a finite debt balance is determined.