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Business Interruption and Insurance Recovery (Notes) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Business Interruption and Insurance Recovery [Abstract] |
Business Insurance Recoveries [Text Block] | NOTE 18 Business Interruption and Insurance Recovery On July 6, 2016, our Lewiston, Idaho facility experienced an electrical incident that caused a complete plant-wide power outage. Power was restored in approximately 18 hours. However, damage to certain equipment limited pulping operations throughout the remainder of July. In addition to repair costs, we incurred other various costs, including incremental pulp replacement costs, incremental natural gas costs, lost electrical generation and increased labor, chemical and wood costs. We maintain property and business interruption insurance and filed a claim with our insurance provider to recover the cost of repairs to the equipment and estimated lost profits due to the disruption of the operations during the repair period. All associated costs and insurance recoveries were recorded in "Cost of sales" in our Consolidated Statement of Operations and included in the "Net earnings" line in our Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. The insurance claim for this event totaled $8.5 million. The claim was settled in its entirety in September 2016, and, net of the policy deductible and certain exclusions totaling $3.5 million, we received $5.0 million from our property insurance provider as final payment of the claim. On November 14, 2016, we experienced a fire at our Las Vegas, Nevada facility. There was minimal disruption to the converting operations at that facility, however certain paper machine equipment was damaged and we incurred approximately 17 days of paper machine downtime while repairs were being made. We were unable to produce through-air-dried parent rolls during this period at the Las Vegas facility. We were able to replace a portion of this lost production capacity by shipping parent rolls from our Shelby, North Carolina facility, in addition to making open market purchases. We maintain property and business interruption insurance and filed a claim with our insurance provider to recover the cost of repairs to the equipment and estimated lost profits due to the disruption of the operations during the repair period. The insurance claim for this event, net of policy deductible, was $2.9 million, of which $1.5 million was recorded in the fourth quarter of 2016 and $1.4 million was recorded in the first quarter of 2017. All associated costs and insurance recoveries have been recorded in "Cost of sales" in our Consolidated Statements of Operations and included in the "Net earnings" line in our Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. On January 28, 2017, there was a fire at our Shelby, North Carolina facility warehouse. Although the building sustained minimal damage, the smoke and water damage to raw material and finished goods inventory was more significant. Operations were impacted during the clean-up and repair period. We filed a claim with our insurance providers to recover the cost of repairs to the equipment and estimated lost profits and inventory due to the disruption of the operations during the repair and cleanup period. Net of policy deductibles, the insurance claim for this event totaled $2.9 million, and was settled in its entirety in the first quarter of 2017. All associated costs and insurance recoveries have been recorded in "Cost of sales" in our Consolidated Statements of Operations and included in the "Net earnings" line in our Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows.

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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://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 225 -SubTopic 30 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=64839914&loc=d3e16285-107787 + Details
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