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Derivative Instruments And Risk Management | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
Derivative Instruments And Risk Management [Abstract] |
Derivative Instruments And Risk Management | Note 17. Derivative Instruments and Risk Management The Company has limited involvement with derivative instruments and does not trade them. The Company does use derivatives to manage certain interest rate, foreign currency exchange rate and raw material cost exposures. The Company uses interest rate swaps, floors, collar and cap agreements to reduce the impact of changes in interest rates on its floating rate debt. The swap agreements are contracts to exchange floating rate for fixed interest payments periodically over the life of the agreements without the exchange of the underlying notional amounts. The notional amounts are used to calculate interest to be paid or received and do not represent the amount of exposure to credit loss. As at December 31, 2011 the Company had no interest rate instruments designated as effective hedges. At December 31, 2010 the following were in effect:
(in millions) |  | Notional Amount |  |  | Strike Rate |  |  | Expiry date |
Interest rate swap |  | $ | 7.5 |  |  |  | 1.4435 | % |  |  | February 7, 2011 |
|  | $ | 7.5 |  |  |  | 1.4500 | % |  |  | February 7, 2011 |
|  | $ | 15.0 |  |  |  | 1.8250 | % |  |  | February 6, 2012 |
|  | $ | 10.0 |  |  |  | 1.8700 | % |  |  | February 6, 2012 |
The interest rate swaps with expiry dates of February 6, 2012 were ineffective at December 31, 2011 because the Company's previous finance facility, which carried the corresponding floating rate debt obligations, had been repaid. Accordingly, a loss of $0.1 million has been recognized in earnings in 2011. The Company has hedged the cost of certain raw materials with commodity swaps which are summarized as follows:
|  | December 31, 2011 |  |  | December 31, 2010 |
(in millions) |  | Carrying Amount |  |  | Fair Value |  |  | Carrying Amount |  |  | Fair Value |
Notional quantity – 2,950 tonnes |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | $ | 1.7 |  |  | $ | 1.7 |
Notional quantity – 2,075 tonnes |  | $ | 0.2 |  |  | $ | 0.2 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
The impact on the income statement for the last 12 months is summarized below:
(in millions) |  | Gain/(Loss) Recognized in OCI on Derivative |  |  | Location of Gain/(Loss) Reclassified from Accumulated OCI into Income |  | Amount of Gain/(Loss) Reclassified from Accumulated OCI into Income |
Interest rate contracts |  | $ | 0.0 |  |  | Interest income/(expense) |  | $ | (0.5 | )
Commodity contracts |  |  | (0.3 | ) |  | Cost of goods sold |  |  | 1.2 |
|  |  | (0.3 | ) |  |  |  |  | 0.7 |
Taxation |  |  | 0.1 |  |  | Income taxes |  |  | (0.2 | )
|  | $ | (0.2 | ) |  |  |  | $ | 0.5 |
We enter into various foreign currency forward exchange contracts to minimize currency exposure from expected future cash flows. The contracts have maturity dates of up to four years at the date of inception. These foreign currency forward exchange contracts have not been designated as hedging instruments, and their impact on the income statement in 2011, 2010 and 2009 is summarized below:
|  | Location of Gain/(Loss) Recognized in Income |  | Amount of Gain/(Loss) Recognized in Income |
(in millions) |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2009 |
Foreign currency forward exchange contracts |  | Other income/(expense) |  | $ | 1.3 |  |  | $ | 0.9 |  |  | $ | 12.0 |
The Company sells a range of Fuel Specialties, Active Chemicals and Octane Additives to major oil refineries and chemical companies throughout the world. Credit limits, ongoing credit evaluation and account monitoring procedures are used to minimize bad debt risk. Collateral is not generally required.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for the entity's entire derivative instruments and hedging activities. Describes an entity's risk management strategies, derivatives in hedging activities and non-hedging derivative instruments, the assets, obligations, liabilities, revenues and expenses arising therefrom, and the amounts of and methodologies and assumptions used in determining the amounts of such items. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) -Number 133 -Paragraph 44 -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy. 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