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Current Operating Environment
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Unusual or Infrequent Items, or Both [Abstract]  
Current Operating Environment Current Operating Environment
Due to the evolving global economic conditions since 2020, initially as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the automotive industry experienced a decline in global customer sales and production volumes. Although industry production has recovered modestly, production remains well below recent historic levels. Since 2020, industry and economic conditions have been influenced directly and indirectly by macroeconomic events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and, beginning in the first quarter of 2022, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, resulting in unfavorable conditions, including shortages of semiconductor chips and other components, elevated inflation levels, higher interest rates, and labor and energy shortages in certain markets. These factors, among others, are impacting consumer demand as well as the ability of automotive manufacturers to produce vehicles to meet demand. The Company's strategy to mitigate these impacts encompasses a comprehensive cost management process, including value added value engineering (or cost technology optimization), actions to further align the Company's manufacturing capacity to the current industry production environment, investments in Industry 4.0 technologies to enhance operational efficiencies and utilization of existing capital to reduce future expenditures.
In March 2022, as the Company's customers began to suspend their Russian operations as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Company similarly began to suspend its Russian operations. Since the first quarter of 2022, the Company has suspended all production in Russia (but for certain de minimis operations) and significantly decreased its workforce in the country. In September 2022, the Company identified potential impairment indicators, given the continued uncertainty regarding its Russian operations and the military escalation announced by the Russian government in September 2022, and determined that the values of substantially all of its operating assets in Russia were impaired. As a result, the Company recorded charges of $19.4 million in 2022 related to impairments of inventory, property, plant and equipment and right-of-use assets. These charges are reflected in the Company's Seating business and are included in cost of sales in the accompanying consolidated statement of income for the year ended December 31, 2022. Although the Company's net sales and total assets in Russia represented less than 1% of its consolidated net sales and total assets prior to the suspension of operations, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and sanctions imposed on Russia globally have resulted in economic and supply chain disruptions affecting the overall automotive industry, the ultimate financial impact of which cannot be reasonably estimated. Further, although the Company does not have operations in Ukraine, the Ukrainian operations of certain of the Company's suppliers and suppliers of its customers have been and will likely continue to be disrupted by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements reflect estimates and assumptions made by management as of December 31, 2022, and for the year then ended. Such estimates and assumptions affect, among other things, the Company's goodwill; long-lived asset valuations; inventory valuations; valuations of deferred income taxes and income tax contingencies; and credit losses related to the Company's financial instruments. Events and circumstances arising after December 31, 2022, including those resulting from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, will be reflected in management's estimates and assumptions in future periods.
For more information related to goodwill, long-lived assets, inventory and credit losses, see Note 3, "Summary of Significant Accounting Policies." For more information related to income taxes, see Note 3, "Summary of Significant Accounting Policies — Income Taxes," and Note 9, "Income Taxes." For more information related to leases, see Note 8, "Leases."