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Business Information | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2019
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Business Information | Business Information The Company identifies itself as one reportable segment, SIFCO, which is a manufacturer of forgings and machined components for the A&E markets. Geographic net sales are based on location of customer. The United States of America is the single largest country for unaffiliated customer sales, accounting for 72% and 69% of consolidated net sales in fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively. No other single country represents greater than 10% of consolidated net sales in fiscal 2019 and 2018. Net sales to unaffiliated customers located in various European countries accounted for 15% and 19% of consolidated net sales in fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively. Net sales to unaffiliated customers located in various Asian countries accounted for 6% and 7% of consolidated net sales in fiscal 2019 and 2018, respectively. Substantially all of the Company's operations and identifiable assets are located within the United States with the exception of its non-U.S. subsidiary located in Maniago, Italy. The identifiable assets for the Company's foreign subsidiaries as of September 30, 2019 was $20,986 compared with $33,507 as of September 30, 2018.
|  | 2019 |  | 2018
Long-Lived Assets |  |  |  |
United States |  | $ | 35,079 |  |  | 29,595 |
Europe |  | 11,562 |  |  | 23,059 |
|  | $ | 46,641 |  |  | 52,654 |
At September 30, 2019, approximately 195 of the hourly plant personnel are represented by two separate and active collective bargaining agreements. The table below shows the expiration dates of the collective bargaining agreements.
Plant locations |  | Expiration date
Cleveland, Ohio |  | May 31, 2020
Maniago, Italy |  | December 31, 2019
The Company is a party to collective bargaining agreements ("CBA") with certain employees located in Cleveland, which has two bargaining units; the Company went into early negotiations and ratified its CBA with one such unit in November 2019 and is expected to enter negotiations with the second unit in the second quarter of fiscal 2020. The Maniago location is party to the National Collective Agreement in metal working. Negotiations have begun with Maniago; however, until an agreement is reached, Maniago will continue to apply existing terms of its current contract.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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