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Note 10 - Retirement Benefits | 3 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract] |
Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits Disclosure [Text Block] | 10) Retirement Benefits The Company has defined benefit pension plans covering certain current and former employees both inside and outside of the U.S. The Company’s pension plan for U.S. salaried employees was frozen as of December 31, 2007, and participants in the plan ceased accruing future benefits. The Company’s pension plan was frozen for substantially all remaining participants as of July 31, 2013, and replaced with a defined contribution benefit plan. Net Periodic Benefit Cost for the Company’s U.S. and Foreign pension benefit plans for the three months ended September 30, 2013 and 2012 consisted of the following components (in thousands):
|  | U.S. Plans |  |  | Non-U.S. Plans |
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, |  |  | Three Months Ended September 30, |
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |  |  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
Service cost |  | $ | 85 |  |  | $ | 176 |  |  | $ | 11 |  |  | $ | 10 |
Interest cost |  |  | 2,810 |  |  |  | 2,735 |  |  |  | 414 |  |  |  | 417 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (3,378 | ) |  |  | (3,698 | ) |  |  | (370 | ) |  |  | (336 | )
Recognized net actuarial loss |  |  | 1,172 |  |  |  | 1,894 |  |  |  | 196 |  |  |  | 226 |
Amortization of prior service cost |  |  | 15 |  |  |  | 26 |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | (14 | )
Net periodic benefit cost |  | $ | 704 |  |  | $ | 1,133 |  |  | $ | 251 |  |  | $ | 303 |
The Company expects to pay $1.5 million in contributions to the plans during 2014 of which, $0.4 million were made during the first quarter of 2014. Contributions of $3.6 million were made during the three months ended September 30, 2012, which included a $3.25 million voluntary contribution made in July 2012, retroactive to June 2012, in order to take advantage of legislation that allowed our U.S. plan to be 100% funded under Pension Protection Act rules at June 30, 2012.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for pension and other postretirement benefits. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 715 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2235017 + Details
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