Supplemental Cash Flow Information

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Supplemental Cash Flow Information [Abstract]

Note 18. Supplemental Cash Flow Information

Cash payments of interest and taxes consist of the following (in thousands):


	Successor				Predecessor
	Three Months Ended March 31, 2012		Two Months Ended April 2, 2011		One Month Ended January 28, 2011
Cash payments of interest, net of amounts capitalized	$	23,537	$	2,662	$	444
Cash payments of income taxes		2,720		1,541		772

Noncash investing or financing transactions for the three months ended March 31, 2012, the two months ended April 2, 2011 and the one month ended January 28, 2011 included $0.6 million, $7.5 million and $0.7 million, respectively, of property, plant and equipment additions for which payment had not been made as of the period end date.

Spain Phase II Asset Purchase

As more fully discussed in Note 4 “Acquisitions”, the Company exercised its Call Option, prior to the Acquisition and thus acquired the Phase II Assets. Consideration for the Phase II Assets aggregated $41.2 million. Of the $41.2 million, approximately $34.8 million was attributable to the Company’s assumption and/or repayment of Tesalca- Texnovo’s outstanding debt. The remaining $6.4 million was associated with the Company’s issuance of 393,675 shares of Predecessor Polymer’s Class A Common Stock to the sellers (calculated using the closing share price on the transaction date).

- Definition

The entire disclosure for supplemental cash flow activities, including cash, noncash, and part noncash transactions, for the period. Noncash is defined as information about all investing and financing activities of an enterprise during a period that affect recognized assets or liabilities but that do not result in cash receipts or cash payments in the period. "Part noncash" refers to that portion of the transaction not resulting in cash receipts or cash payments in the period.

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