Post Retirement Benefits (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2016

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, 2016 and 2015 are as follows:



	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	September 30,						September 30,
	2016			2015			2016			2015
Pension expense:
Multi-employer plan	$	168,000		$	218,000		$	538,000		$	646,000
Defined contribution plan	165,000			222,000			578,000			629,000
Total pension expense	333,000			440,000			1,116,000			1,275,000

Health and life insurance:
Interest cost	81,000			79,000			243,000			237,000
Amortization of prior service costs	(124,000		)	(124,000		)	(372,000		)	(372,000		)
Amortization of net loss	38,000			42,000			116,000			126,000
Net periodic benefit cost	(5,000		)	(3,000		)	(13,000		)	(9,000		)

Total post retirement benefits expense	$	328,000		$	437,000		$	1,103,000		$	1,266,000