Nature of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Details) (USD $) In Millions, except Share data, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended			0 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010	Dec. 31, 2009	Apr. 20, 2011 Common Stock	Dec. 31, 2011 Common Stock	Dec. 31, 2011 Minimum	Apr. 29, 2011 Sierra Pacific Packaging, Inc. [Member]	Dec. 31, 2011 Graphic Flexible Packaging, LLC (GFP)	Dec. 31, 2011 Graphic Flexible Packaging, LLC (GFP) Capital Five Investments, LLC (CVI)	Dec. 31, 2011 Joint Venture with Rengo Riverwood	Dec. 31, 2011 Graphic Hung Hing Packaging (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Noncontrolling Interest, Ownership Percentage by Parent								87.00%			60.00%
Noncontrolling Interest, Ownership Percentage by Noncontrolling Owners									13.00%
Business Acquisition, Cost of Acquired Entity, Purchase Price							$ 51.9
Ownership percentage										50.00%
Property, Plant and Equipment
Spending threshold for capitalization of interest						1.0
Capitalized interest	1.5	1.1	2.4
Research and development expense	16.0	12.8	7.2
Alternative Fuel Tax Credit
Excise tax refund claim submitted			147.2
Excise tax refund received			134.8
Net impact of the excise tax credit	0	0	137.8
Equity Issuance [Abstract]
Common stock issued in public offering (in shares)				52,500,000
Common stock issued in public offering, Par value (in dollars per share)	$ 0.01	$ 1.00		$ 0.01
Common stock issued in public offering, amount per share (in dollars per share)				$ 4.75
Net Proceeds from Issuance of Common Stock	237.7	0	0	237.7
Proceeds from offering used to repurchase and retire shares					32.9
Common stock repurchased and retired (in shares)					7,300,000
Purchase price allocated to goodwill							14.2	13.9
Business Acquisition, Purchase Price Allocation, Goodwill, Expected Tax Deductible Amount							$ 24