Post Retirement Benefits (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2015

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Defined Benefit Plans Disclosures [Table Text Block]

The components of expense for Core Molding Technologies’ post retirement benefit plans for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015 and 2014 are as follows:



	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	September 30,						September 30,
	2015			2014			2015			2014
Pension expense:
Multi-employer plan	$	218,000		$	178,000		$	646,000		$	514,000
Defined contribution plan	222,000			169,000			629,000			530,000
Total pension expense	440,000			347,000			1,275,000			1,044,000

Health and life insurance:
Interest cost	79,000			69,000			237,000			207,000
Amortization of prior service costs	(124,000		)	(124,000		)	(372,000		)	(372,000		)
Amortization of net loss	42,000			12,000			126,000			36,000
Net periodic benefit cost	(3,000		)	(43,000		)	(9,000		)	(129,000		)

Total post retirement benefits expense	$	437,000		$	304,000		$	1,266,000		$	915,000