Fair Value Measurements (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
NAV Redemptions	$ 1.00
Mac Dermid [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Price performance metrics period	7 years
Long term contingent consideration	100,000,000
EBITDA related earnout include a discount rate	1.50%
Business acquisition expected future value payments	60,000,000
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses [Member] \| Mac Dermid [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Long term contingent consideration	$ 2,700,000	$ 13,000,000

Information on the expected future value of the payment for the contingent consideration.

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Represents the daily investment and redemption rate used to estimate the fair value of the company's financial instruments, assets, and liabilities.

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Amount of liability recognized arising from contingent consideration in a business combination.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 805

-SubTopic 30

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 820

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

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