Business Segments (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

Summarized financial information concerning reportable segments

Summarized financial information concerning reportable segments is shown in the following table. The “other” column includes corporate adjustments, gross property, plant and equipment of our corporate and sales offices and capital additions that do not directly support manufacturing operations, such as research and development and infrastructure projects.



	Packaging		Test		Other		Total
	(In thousands)
Three months ended March 31, 2013
Net sales	$	593,375	$	94,154	$	—	$	687,529
Depreciation expense	61,652		27,515		—		89,167
Gross profit	83,501		31,452		—		114,953
Capital additions	63,663		40,166		20,441		124,270
Three months ended March 31, 2012
Net sales	$	581,511	$	73,499	$	—	$	655,010
Depreciation expense	57,920		22,177		—		80,097
Gross profit	87,303		17,678		—		104,981
Capital additions	53,551		49,082		21,302		123,935
Gross property, plant and equipment
March 31, 2013	$	3,412,124	$	1,100,370	$	115,451	$	4,627,945
December 31, 2012	3,372,071		1,076,513		150,469		4,599,053

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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