Ecovyst, Inc. Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Other Operating Expense, Net (Tables)

Other Operating Expense, Net (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Other Income and Expenses [Abstract]

Schedule of Other Nonoperating Income (Expense)

A summary of other operating expense, net is as follows:



	Three months ended March 31,
	2019		2018
Amortization expense	$	8,664	$	8,949
Net loss on asset disposals⁽¹⁾	820		1,152
Insurance recoveries⁽¹⁾	—		(1,244		)
Environmental related costs	479		89
Other, net	776		368
	$	10,739	$	9,314

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During the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company recognized $1,500 of insurance recoveries in its condensed consolidated statement of income related to the Company’s claim for losses sustained during Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. Of this amount, $1,244 was recorded as a gain in other operating expense, net, as reimbursement of expenses, $207 was recorded as a gain in net loss on asset disposals within other operating expense, net, for the Company’s previously recognized property losses, and $49 represented recoveries in excess of the Company’s property losses which was recorded as a non-operating gain in other expense, net, in the Company’s condensed consolidated statement of income.