FIRE AT AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING FACILITY
In July 2012, a fire occurred at the Company’s manufacturing facility in Picton, Australia, causing extensive damage and rendering the facility inoperable. As a result of the fire, in 2012, the Company recorded a charge of approximately $22.3 million for impairment of fixed assets, and incurred approximately $21.3 million of excess production costs as the Company utilized its other manufacturing facilities to service customers in Australia and New Zealand. Each of these amounts for impairment of fixed assets and excess production costs previously were recorded as a receivable on the Company’s balance sheet, because they were subject to a claim for reimbursement under the Company’s insurance policy. In 2012, the Company received $20.7 million in reimbursement from its insurance company related to the fire. Following the receipt of those proceeds, as of the end of 2012, the Company had an insurance recovery receivable on the fire claim of approximately $22.9 million. This amount was included in the “Prepaid expenses and other current assets” line of the Company’s consolidated balance sheet.
In addition to the excess production costs described above, in 2012 the Company incurred approximately $1.7 million of costs related to the fire that were non-production related and were not the subject of a claim under the Company’s insurance policy. As a result, this amount was included in the determination of operating income as shown in the line item “Expenses related to Australia fire” in the Company’s consolidated condensed statement of operations.
In 2013, the Company recorded further impairment of fixed assets of $2.7 million and excess production costs of $23.4 million related to the fire. (Thus, the aggregate of the amounts for impairment of fixed assets and excess production costs recorded during 2012 and 2013 totaled $69.7 million). In the first nine months of 2013, the Company received $33.7 million of further reimbursements related to the fire insurance claim, and in the fourth quarter of 2013, the Company received a final settlement payment of $22.3 million from its insurance company. (Thus, the aggregate cash insurance proceeds received during 2012 and 2013 totaled $76.7 million.)
At the time of the final insurance settlement payment, the amount of proceeds received exceeded the amount that the Company had recorded as a receivable. (Certain amounts claimed with the insurance company had not been recorded in the Company’s financial statements, in accordance with applicable accounting standards.) Accordingly, the amount of reimbursement received in excess of the insurance receivable, approximately $7.0 million, was recorded as a gain during 2013 in the consolidated statement of operations. There was no insurance recovery receivable as of the end of 2013, and the Company does not expect to incur any additional fire related expenses or record any additional fire related recoveries from the insurer.
As described in Items 1 and 7 of this report, the Company’s new manufacturing facility in Minto, Australia commenced operations in January 2014.