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Segment Reporting | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Segment Reporting |
11. | SEGMENT REPORTING
The Company has three reportable segments: Surfactants, Polymers and Specialty Products. Net sales by segment for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, were as follows:
(In thousands) |  | Three Months Ended September 30 |  |  | Nine Months Ended September 30 |
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Segment Net Sales |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Surfactants |  | $ | 321,444 |  |  | $ | 290,467 |  |  | $ | 973,381 |  |  | $ | 899,014 |
Polymers |  |  | 147,754 |  |  |  | 134,144 |  |  |  | 415,551 |  |  |  | 382,540 |
Specialty Products |  |  | 18,616 |  |  |  | 20,419 |  |  |  | 62,252 |  |  |  | 63,976 |
Total |  | $ | 487,814 |  |  | $ | 445,030 |  |  | $ | 1,451,184 |  |  | $ | 1,345,530 |
Segment operating income and reconciliations of segment operating income to consolidated income before income taxes for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, are summarized below:
(In thousands) |  | Three Months Ended September 30 |  |  | Nine Months Ended September 30 |
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Segment Operating Income |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Surfactants |  | $ | 22,466 |  |  | $ | 20,737 |  |  | $ | 91,733 |  |  | $ | 85,214 |
Polymers |  |  | 21,116 |  |  |  | 27,087 |  |  |  | 63,772 |  |  |  | 80,278 |
Specialty Products |  |  | 988 |  |  |  | 2,328 |  |  |  | 7,702 |  |  |  | 6,449 |
Segment operating income |  |  | 44,570 |  |  |  | 50,152 |  |  |  | 163,207 |  |  |  | 171,941 |
Business restructuring |  |  | (426 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | (1,798 | ) |  |  | (1,061 | )
Unallocated corporate expenses (1) |  |  | (13,835 | ) |  |  | (21,414 | ) |  |  | (46,080 | ) |  |  | (54,619 | )
Consolidated operating income |  |  | 30,309 |  |  |  | 28,738 |  |  |  | 115,329 |  |  |  | 116,261 |
Interest expense, net |  |  | (2,763 | ) |  |  | (2,824 | ) |  |  | (8,618 | ) |  |  | (9,855 | )
Other, net |  |  | 1,766 |  |  |  | 1,229 |  |  |  | 3,994 |  |  |  | 401 |
Consolidated income before income taxes |  | $ | 29,312 |  |  | $ | 27,143 |  |  | $ | 110,705 |  |  | $ | 106,807 |
| (1) | Unallocated corporate expenses are primarily comprised of corporate administrative expenses (e.g., corporate finance, legal, human resources, information systems, deferred compensation and environmental remediation) that are not included in segment operating income and not used to evaluate segment performance. |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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