NOTE C – PENSION PLANS

The Company uses a December 31 measurement date for the Preformed Line Products Company Employees’ Retirement Plan (the “Plan”). Net periodic benefit cost for this plan included the following components:


	Three Months Ended September 30						Nine Months Ended September 30
	2016			2015			2016			2015
Service cost	$	42		$	88		$	152		$	142
Interest cost		370			361			1,099			1,077
Expected return on plan assets		(470	)		(456	)		(1,369	)		(1,386	)
Recognized net actuarial loss		146			158			392			436

Net periodic benefit cost	$	88		$	151		$	274		$	269

The Company made $1.0 million in contributions to the Plan during the nine months ended September 30, 2016. The Company does not anticipate contributing additional funding to the Plan in 2016.