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Retirement Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Retirement Benefits [Abstract]  
Retirement Plans And Other Postretirement Benefits 8. RETIREMENT PLANS AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT BENEFITS
Tredegar sponsored a noncontributory defined benefit (pension) plan covering certain current and former U.S. employees. The plan for salaried and hourly employees was based on a formula using the participant’s years of service and compensation or using the participant’s years of service and a dollar amount. The plan is closed to new participants and pay for active plan participants for benefit calculations was frozen as of December 31, 2007. As of January 31, 2018, the plan no longer accrued benefits associated with crediting employees for service, thereby freezing all future benefits under the plan. On February 10, 2022, Tredegar announced the initiation of a process to terminate and settle its frozen defined benefit pension plan through lump sum distributions and the purchase of annuity contracts. In connection therewith, on February 9, 2022, the Company contributed $50 million to the pension plan.
During the third quarter of 2023, the Company remeasured the pension plan, which resulted in a pre-tax pension settlement loss in the consolidated results of operation of $25.6 million. The remeasurement of the pension benefit obligation and plan assets was triggered by $64.5 million of lump sum distributions from the pension plan assets which exceeded the pension plan's service and interest cost.
In September 2023, the Company borrowed $30 million under its prior credit agreement in anticipation of the final funding expected for terminating its defined benefit pension plan obligation. In October 2023, the Company used this cash to contribute $27.7 million to fully fund the pension plan with the amount necessary to purchase from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company a nonparticipating single premium group annuity contract for $157.5 million. In November 2023, the pension plan termination and settlement process was completed, and the Company’s relevant pension plan obligation was transferred to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. This completed the pension plan termination process that began in February 2022. As a result of the routine administrative process to transition the pension plan, the Company recognized a $2.0 million charge to adjust the initial purchase price of the nonparticipating single premium group annuity contract reported as part of Other income (expense), net on the Consolidated Statement of Income (Loss). During the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company recognized a pre-tax pension settlement loss of $66.7 million.
Tredegar also has a non-qualified supplemental pension plan covering certain employees. Effective December 31, 2005, further participation in this plan was terminated and benefit accruals for existing participants were frozen. The plan was designed to restore all or a part of the pension benefits that would have been payable to designated participants from the principal pension plans if it were not for limitations imposed by income tax regulations. The projected benefit obligation relating to this unfunded plan was $1.5 million and $1.6 million at December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. Pension expense recognized for this plan was $0.1 million in 2024, 2023 and 2022. This information has been included in the pension benefit tables below.
In addition to providing pension benefits, the Company provides postretirement life insurance and health care benefits for certain groups of employees. Tredegar and retirees share in the cost of postretirement health care benefits, with employees hired on or before January 1, 1993, receiving a fixed subsidy to cover a portion of their health care premiums. The Company eliminated prescription drug coverage for Medicare-eligible retirees as of January 1, 2006. Consequently, Tredegar is not eligible for any federal subsidies.
The following tables reconcile the changes in benefit obligations and plan assets in 2024 and 2023, and reconcile the funded status to prepaid or accrued cost at December 31, 2024 and 2023:
 Pension BenefitsOther Post-
Retirement Benefits
(In thousands)2024202320242023
Change in benefit obligation:
Benefit obligation, beginning of year$1,600 $248,114 $5,712 $5,726 
Service cost— — 9 10 
Interest cost75 9,623 274 288 
Effect of actuarial (gains) losses related to the following:
Discount rate change(60)(10,751)(305)99 
Other47 (6,459)(193)12 
Plan participant contributions— — 456 490 
Benefits paid(184)(16,957)(875)(913)
Settlement payments and annuity purchase— (221,970)— — 
Benefit obligation, end of year$1,478 $1,600 $5,078 $5,712 
Change in plan assets:
Plan assets at fair value, beginning of year$— $218,119 $— $— 
Actual return on plan assets— (7,053)— — 
Employer contributions184 27,861 419 423 
Plan participant contributions— — 456 490 
Benefits paid(184)(16,957)(875)(913)
Settlement payments and annuity purchase— (221,970)— — 
Plan assets at fair value, end of year$— $— $— $— 
Funded status of the plans$(1,478)$(1,600)$(5,078)$(5,712)
Amounts recognized in the consolidated balance sheets:
Accrued expenses (current)$161 $180 $481 $489 
Pension and other postretirement benefit obligations, net1,317 1,420 4,597 5,223 
Net amount recognized$1,478 $1,600 $5,078 $5,712 
The following table sets forth the assumptions used in accounting for the pension and other post-retirement benefits, and the components of net periodic benefit cost:
 Pension BenefitsOther Post-
Retirement Benefits
(In thousands, except percentages)202420232022202420232022
Weighted-average assumptions used to determine benefit obligations:
Discount rate5.49 %4.89 %5.07 %5.63 %4.98 %5.17 %
Expected long-term return on plan assetsn/an/a4.99 %n/an/an/a
Weighted-average assumptions used to determine net periodic benefit cost:
Discount rate(a)
4.89 %
5.07%/5.37%
2.90 %4.98 %5.17 %2.86 %
Expected long-term return on plan assetsn/an/a3.05 %n/an/an/a
Components of net periodic benefit cost:
Service cost$— $— $— $9 $10 $18 
Interest cost75 9,623 8,945 274 288 207 
Expected return on plan assets— (8,109)(8,174)— — — 
Amortization of prior service costs and gains or losses21 9,245 13,746 (162)(213)(140)
Net periodic benefit cost$96 $10,759 $14,517 $121 $85 $85 
Pension settlement loss— 92,291 — — — — 
Total benefit cost$96 $103,050 $14,517 $121 $85 $85 
(a) Prior to the pension lump sum distributions in August 2023, a discount rate of 5.07% was used to determine the net periodic benefit cost. Subsequent to August 2023, a discount rate of 5.37% was used to determine the net periodic benefit cost until the Company purchased a nonparticipating single premium group annuity contract in October 2023.
Net periodic benefit cost is determined using assumptions at the beginning of each year. Funded status is determined using assumptions at the end of each year. The amount of the accumulated benefit obligation is the same as the projected benefit obligation. At December 31, 2024, the effect of a 1% change in the health care cost trend rate assumptions would not impact the post-retirement obligation.
Expected benefit payments over the next five years and in the aggregate for 2030—2034 are as follows:
(In thousands)Pension BenefitsOther Post-
Retirement
Benefits
2025$180 $463 
2026171 449 
2027163 436 
2028154 423 
2029145 410 
2030—2034598 1,890 
The pre-tax amounts recorded in 2024, 2023 and 2022 in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) consist of:
 Pension BenefitsOther Post-Retirement Benefits
(In thousands)202420232022202420232022
Net actuarial (gain) loss$384 $415 $103,998 $(1,534)$(1,250)$(1,574)
The amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income, before related deferred income taxes, which are expected to be recognized as components of net periodic cost during 2025 are approximately $0.3 million of benefit for other post-retirement plans.