Business Acquisition, Period of Acquisitions

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Business Combination, Number of Employees

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Number of Subsidiaries Included in Business Acquisition

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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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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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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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This element represents the amount of revenue of the acquiree since the acquisition date included in the consolidated income statement for the reporting period.

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Amount of currency on hand as well as demand deposits with banks or financial institutions, acquired at the acquisition date. Includes other kinds of accounts that have the general characteristics of demand deposits. Also includes short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates.

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Amount of intangible assets, excluding goodwill, acquired at the acquisition date.

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Amount after accumulated impairment loss of an asset representing future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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Acquisitions (Details) € in Thousands, SFr in Thousands, $ in Thousands				3 Months Ended					5 Months Ended	9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Apr. 03, 2017 USD ($)	Aug. 31, 2016 CHF (SFr)	Aug. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2016 subsidiary	Dec. 31, 2015 CHF (SFr) employee subsidiary	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($) subsidiary	Sep. 30, 2015 EUR (€) subsidiary	Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($) subsidiary	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($)	Aug. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($) employee	Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($)
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Period of acquisitions											3 years
Number of subsidiaries included in business acquisition \| subsidiary				3	2	2	1	1
Goodwill										$ 690,223	$ 690,223	$ 633,436			$ 587,992
Gammaflux L.P. [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Aggregate purchase price	$ 8,866
Adjustments under terms of Share Purchase Agreement	2
Acquisition related costs											$ 210
Sales since date of acquisition										$ 9,081
Other intangible assets	3,700
Goodwill	$ 1,535
FOBOHA Business [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Adjustments under terms of Share Purchase Agreement		SFr 11,342												$ 11,530
Cash paid		SFr 137,918	$ 140,203
Acquisition related costs												2,193
Sales since date of acquisition												$ 18,348
Other intangible assets														39,800
Goodwill														$ 75,574
Priamus [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Aggregate purchase price					SFr 9,879	$ 10,111
Number of employees \| employee					40										40
Acquisition related costs													$ 574
Sales since date of acquisition						$ 2,028
Priamus System Technologies AG [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of subsidiaries included in business acquisition \| subsidiary					2	2
Thermoplay [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Aggregate purchase price							€ 58,066	$ 63,690
Adjustments under terms of Share Purchase Agreement					SFr 1,556		€ 17,054								$ 1,592	$ 18,706
Acquisition related costs													$ 2,195
Sales since date of acquisition									$ 13,593