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Business combinations pre-tax income (loss) during period from acquired business.

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Business Combinations Revenue During Period From Acquired Business

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Common Stock Market Price

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Common Stock Shares Exchanged For Each Share Of Acquiree Common Stock

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Common Stock Transferred For Cash Value

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Payments For Option Cancellations And Restricted Stock Units

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Percentage Of Common Shares Of Acquired Entity Settled In Cash

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Percentage Of Holding Receiving Cash Consideration

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Percentage Of Holding Receiving Stock Consideration

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Period considered for volume weighted average trading price.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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This element represents acquisition-related costs incurred to effect a business combination which costs have been expensed during the period. Such costs include finder's fees; advisory, legal, accounting, valuation, and other professional or consulting fees; general administrative costs, including the costs of maintaining an internal acquisitions department; and may include costs of registering and issuing debt and equity securities.

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The number of new shares issued in the conversion of stock in a noncash (or part noncash) transaction. Noncash is defined as transactions during a period that do not result in cash receipts or cash payments in the period. "Part noncash" refers to that portion of the transaction not resulting in cash receipts or cash payments in the period.

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Fair value of equity issued in a business combination.

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Amount of other expense that is infrequent in occurrence or unusual in nature.

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Acquisitions (Met-Pro) - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions		12 Months Ended
	Aug. 27, 2013	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Acquisition related expenses included in pro-forma results		$ 17.7	$ 1.3	$ 13.9
Nonrecurring expenses included in pro-forma results		3.7	$ 26.6	3.5
Met-Pro [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Cash consideration per share	$ 13.75
Stock consideration per share			$ 13.75
Trading day period			15 days
Exchange ratio	108.43%
Percentage of common stock converted into cash			51.60%
Value of shares transferred for cash			$ 104.4
Trading price			$ 12.6814
Shares of common stock in aggregate stock consideration			7,726,235
Percentage of cash consideration			77.56%
Percentage of stock consideration			22.44%
Value of stock recorded			$ 98.0
Consideration for cancelling of options and restricted stock units			4.9
Revenue from acquired entity		80.9	83.1	30.5
Income from acquired entity		$ 14.3	$ 14.6	$ 0.9
Met-Pro [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Exchange ratio	135.20%
Met-Pro [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Exchange ratio	100.00%