Taxes on Income (Details 2) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($) item	Dec. 31, 2014 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2010
Taxes on Income
Net earnings	$ 302.9	$ 498.0	$ 435.0
Income tax holiday period	10 years
Exemption reduced income tax	$ 16.1	16.4	14.7
Amount of earnings of foreign subsidiaries on which deferred taxes have not been provided	2,021.7
Federal withholding tax provision	0.0
Net U.S. taxes primarily provided for Brazil, Canada and PRC earnings	1.7	11.8	26.4
Net income taxes payments	58.4	163.2	$ 111.4
Deferred tax assets:
Deferred compensation	109.6	105.7
Accrued employee benefits	113.0	128.1
Plant closure costs	3.1	3.4
Accrued pensions	177.3	175.5
Inventory and other reserves	21.2	19.4
Net operating losses, foreign tax credits and other tax attributes	105.0	108.8
Unrealized losses on currency exchange and derivative transactions	57.1	24.4
Transaction costs	33.9
Other	32.4	26.2
Total deferred tax assets	652.6	591.5
Valuation allowance	(90.3)	(92.4)
Net deferred tax assets	562.3	499.1
Deferred tax liabilities:
Depreciation	(267.2)	(242.4)
Goodwill and other intangible assets	(155.2)	(141.1)
Other	(17.3)	(30.2)
Total deferred tax liabilities	(439.7)	(413.7)
Net deferred tax asset (liability)	122.6	85.4
Net deferred tax asset (liability) included in the consolidated balance sheets:
Deferred taxes and other current assets	96.3	54.9
Intangibles and other assets, net	59.6	66.5
Other current liabilities	(3.1)	(3.6)
Deferred taxes and other liabilities	(30.2)	(32.4)
Net deferred tax asset	122.6	$ 85.4
Maximum
Taxes on Income
Foreign annual abatement of tax over the income tax holiday period	33.9
Ball's Serbian subsidiary
Taxes on Income
Income tax holiday period				10 years
Income tax credit as percentage of additional local investment				80.00%
Foreign annual abatement of tax over the income tax holiday period	$ 18.8
Latapack-Ball Embalagens Ltda. (Latapack-Ball)
Taxes on Income
Percentage of tax exemption received on certain portion of annual earnings	19.00%
Number of tax holidays | item	2