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Plant Closure Provisions
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2021
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract]  
Plant Closure Provisions
NOTE 9 – PLANT CLOSURE PROVISIONS
The Company has continuing plans to remediate manufacturing facilities at sites around the world as and when those operations are expected to cease or we are required to decommission the sites according to local laws and regulations. The liability for estimated closure costs includes costs for decontamination and environmental remediation activities (“remediation”).
The principal site giving rise to remediation liabilities is the manufacturing site at Ellesmere Port in the United Kingdom. There are also provisions on a much smaller scale in respect of other manufacturing sites. We recognize environmental remediation liabilities when they are probable and costs can be reasonably estimated.
Movements in the provisions are summarized as follows:
 
(in millions)
  
2021
 
Total at January 1
   $ 58.5  
Charge for the period
     2.8  
Utilized in the period
     (4.3
Exchange effect
     (0.5
    
 
 
 
Total at September 30
     56.5  
Due within one year
     (5.7
    
 
 
 
Due after one year
   $ 50.8  
    
 
 
 
The charge for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 was $2.8 million (nine months ended September 30, 2020 – $11.0
million). The current year charge represents the accounting accretion only, with no changes for the expected cost and scope of future remediation activities. In the prior year, the charge included an additional
$7.5 
million provision as a result of the restructuring activities following the closure of our Octane Additives business and the cessation of the production and sales of TEL for use in motor gasoline.
Amounts due within one year refer to provisions where expenditure is expected to arise within one year of the balance sheet date.