---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000084748-24-000045"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "ROG"
cik: "0000084748"
company_name: "ROGERS CORP"
filed_at: "2024-07-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T19:24:42.904839+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rogers Corp updates Belgium plant closure costs: $16-18M severance, total $18-28M

## Summary
- Total shutdown costs for Evergem, Belgium facility estimated at $18-28M; $16-18M for employee severance.
- Remaining costs include non-cash accelerated depreciation and other shutdown-related cash expenses.
- Bulk of cash outflows expected during fiscal year 2025.
- Previously unable to estimate severance; now provides this breakdown in 8-K/A amendment.
- Facility cessation aimed at optimizing global production costs.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000084748-24-000045
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: ROG
- cik: 0000084748
- company_name: ROGERS CORP
- filed_at: 2024-07-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.05
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/84748/000008474824000045/0000084748-24-000045-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/84748/000008474824000045/rog-20240606.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000084748-24-000045
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000084748-24-000045.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000084748-24-000045.txt

## Key facts
- Restructurings & Charges
  ROGERS CORP announced a restructuring with charges of $16 to $18 million affecting facility in Evergem, Belgium (employee severance costs).
  - Type: restructuring
  - Charge: $16 to $18 million
  - Affected area: facility in Evergem, Belgium
  - Headcount: employee severance costs
  source text: The Company now estimates that of the total anticipated shutdown-related expenses previously estimated in the range of $18 to 28 million, $16 to $18 million is expected to comprise employee severance costs, with the balance comprising non-cash accelerated depreciation of fixed asset costs and other shutdown-related cash costs.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/84748/000008474824000045/0000084748-24-000045-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.