Note 1 - General (Details) (Zoltek Common Stock Outstanding Cash Conversion Price Per Share [Member], USD $)	Dec. 31, 2013
Zoltek Common Stock Outstanding Cash Conversion Price Per Share [Member]
Note 1 - General (Details) [Line Items]
Share Price (in Dollars per share)	$ 16.75

Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 820

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (e)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=25499696&loc=d3e19207-110258

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