Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - PPE (Details)	12 Months Ended
Aug. 31, 2017 item
Segment Information
Number of Operating Segments	2
Buildings and improvements \| Minimum
Property, plant and equipment
Estimated useful life	15 years
Buildings and improvements \| Maximum
Property, plant and equipment
Estimated useful life	40 years
Machinery and equipment \| Minimum
Property, plant and equipment
Estimated useful life	3 years
Machinery and equipment \| Maximum
Property, plant and equipment
Estimated useful life	10 years

Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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