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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. employees is frozen for substantially all participants and has been 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

and

nine

months ended

March 31, 2019

and

2018

consisted of the following components (in thousands):

	U.S. Plans						Non-U.S. Plans
	Three Months Ended						Three Months Ended
	March 31,						March 31 ,
	201 9			201 8			201 9			201 8
Service cost	$	1		$	1		$	9		$	9
Interest cost		2,586			2,520			254			269
Expected return on plan assets		(3,385	)		(3,354	)		(229	)		(244	)
Recognized net actuarial loss		1,030			1,145			86			242
Amortization of prior service cost		-			-			-			(9	)
Net periodic benefit cost	$	232		$	312		$	120		$	267

	U.S. Plans						Non-U.S. Plans
	Nine Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	March 31,						March 31,
	201 9			201 8			201 9			201 8
Service cost	$	3		$	3		$	26		$	27
Interest cost		7,757			7,560			757			783
Expected return on plan assets		(10,156	)		(10,061	)		(682	)		(710	)
Recognized net actuarial loss		3,091			3,435			256			705
Amortization of prior service cost		-			-			-			(26	)
Net periodic benefit cost	$	695		$	937		$	357		$	779

The contributions made to defined benefit plans for the

three

and

nine

months ended

March 31, 2019

and

2018

are presented below along with remaining contributions to be made for fiscal year

2019

(in thousands):

Contributions to defined benefit plans	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,				Remaining Contributions to be made in Fiscal 2019
	2019		2018		2019		2018
United States, unfunded plan	$	56	$	67	$	169	$	194	$	56
United Kingdom		196		210		582		614		184
Germany, unfunded plan		-		-		-		-		274
Ireland		-		-		-		-		65
	$	252	$	277	$	751	$	808	$	579