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Insurance Recovery | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Insurance Recovery [Abstract] |
Insurance Recovery | 23. Insurance Recovery Millsdale, IL site On January 19, 2020, the Company experienced a power disruption that impacted its Millsdale, Illinois facility. This power outage combined with below freezing temperatures, led to significant production and operational challenges that impacted both Surfactants and Polymers produced at the site. The Millsdale facility operated on a partial basis and used existing inventories to serve its customers. On February 17, 2020, power outage-related operational issues impacted the Millsdale site’s waste water treatment plant and forced the Company to stop production at the site. As a result, the Company declared force majeure for the supply of phthalic anhydride (Polymers) and certain surfactant product lines. All production lines were fully operational prior to the end of the 2020 first quarter. During the second half of 2020, the Company finalized an insurance settlement related to this incident and recognized an $18,000,000 pre-tax insurance recovery. This insurance recovery was recognized as a reduction of expenses within cost of sales in the consolidated financial statement of income for the year ended December 31, 2020. Surfactant and Polymer segment reported $5.2 million and $12.8 million, respectively in insurance recovery. Ecatepec, Mexico site The Company received insurance recovery proceeds of $8,965,000 in December 2019 for damaged equipment, incremental supply chain expenses and business interruption losses pertaining to the first quarter 2019 sulfonation equipment failure at the Company’s plant in Ecatepec, Mexico. The insurance recovery was recorded as reduction of cost of sales in the consolidated statement of income for the year ended December 31, 2019.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for business interruption insurance recoveries. Includes, but is not limited to, the nature of the event resulting in business interruption losses, amount of business interruption insurance recoveries recognized, and line item in the statement of income in which those recoveries are classified. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/subtopic&trid=114868818 + Details
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