VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES (Notes)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Variable Interest Entity, Consolidated, Carrying Amount, Assets and Liabilities, Net [Abstract]

Variable Interest Entity Disclosure [Text Block]

VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES

The Company holds a variable interest in two joint ventures for which the Company is the primary beneficiary. Both of the joint ventures operate distribution facilities that primarily distribute mining products. Titan is the 50% owner of one of these distribution facilities, which is located in Canada, and the 40% owner of the other such facility, which is located in Australia. The Company’s variable interests in these two joint ventures relate to sales of Titan product to these entities, consigned inventory, and working capital loans. Titan also is party to a joint venture that is the consortium that owns Voltyre-Prom, of which Titan originally was a 43% owner. On July 31, 2019, Titan purchased additional shares resulting in Titan having a 64.3% ownership in the consortium and the joint venture became a majority owned entity and is no longer a variable interest entity. See Note 13 for additional information.

The Company also held a variable interest in five other entities for which Titan was the primary beneficiary. Each of these entities provided specific manufacturing related services at the Company's Tennessee facility. Titan's variable interest in these entities relates to financial support to the entities through providing many of the assets used by these entities in their business. The Company owns no equity in these entities. In December 2019, the Company delivered a notice of termination of the supply agreement with three of these entities and the Company no longer holds a variable interest in them. The Company still holds a variable interest in the remaining two entities.

As the primary beneficiary of these variable interest entities (VIEs), the VIEs’ assets, liabilities, and results of operations are included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of, and for the year ended, December 31, 2019. The other equity holders’ interests are reflected in “Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations and “Noncontrolling interests” in the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

The following table summarizes the carrying amount of the VIEs’ assets and liabilities included in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2019 and 2018 (amounts in thousands):



	2019		2018
Cash and cash equivalents	$	2,190	$	9,064
Inventory	1,070		12,987
Other current assets	1,027		38,533
Property, plant, and equipment, net	1,327		28,057
Other noncurrent assets	—		2,971
Total assets	$	5,614	$	91,612

Current liabilities	1,110		36,246
Noncurrent liabilities	579		6,353
Total liabilities	$	1,689	$	42,599

All assets in the above table can only be used to settle obligations of the consolidated VIE to which the respective assets relate. Liabilities are nonrecourse obligations. Amounts presented in the table above are adjusted for intercompany eliminations.

The Company holds a variable interest in certain VIEs which are not consolidated because Titan is not the primary beneficiary. The Company's involvement with these entities is in the form of direct equity interests and prepayments and purchases of materials. The maximum exposure to loss represents the loss of assets recognized by Titan relating to non-consolidated entities and amounts due to the non-consolidated assets. The assets and liabilities recognized in Titan's Consolidated Balance Sheets related to Titan's interest in these non-consolidated VIEs and the Company's maximum exposure to loss relating to non-consolidated VIEs were as follows at December 31, 2019 and 2018 (amounts in thousands):



	2019		2018
Investments	$	4,973	$	3,985
Other current assets	—		1,200
Total VIE assets	4,973		5,185
Accounts payable	2,006		2,350
Maximum exposure to loss	$	6,979	$	7,535