Property, plant and equipment consisted of the following as of April 30, 2025 and October 31, 2024 (in thousands):


	April 30, 2025		October 31, 2024
Land and land improvements	$	17,322	$	99,068
Buildings and building improvements	197,530		186,087
Machinery and equipment	509,154		462,628
Construction in progress	60,805		46,534
Property, plant and equipment, gross	784,811		794,317
Less: Accumulated depreciation	367,707		391,851
Property, plant and equipment, net	$	417,104	$	402,466

Depreciation expense, including amortization of finance leases, for the three and six months ended April 30, 2025 of $12.7 million and $26.6 million, respectively, and $7.9 million and $15.9 million for the comparable prior year periods.

The reported balances of our property, plant and equipment as of April 30, 2025 have been updated to incorporate reclassifications of balances between categories of assets and between gross and accumulated depreciation values. These reclassifications are immaterial to the current and prior period financial statements.

If there are indicators of potential impairment, we evaluate our property, plant and equipment for recoverability over the remaining useful lives of the assets. We did not incur impairment losses associated with these assets for the periods ended April 30, 2025 and October 31, 2024.