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Borrowing Arrangements - Additional Information (Detail)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
USD ($)
Dec. 31, 2014
EUR (€)
Dec. 31, 2014
GBP (£)
Dec. 31, 2013
USD ($)
Dec. 31, 2014
Letter of Credit [Member]
USD ($)
Dec. 31, 2014
Minimum [Member]
Dec. 31, 2014
Tax Exempt Industrial Revenue Bond One [Member]
USD ($)
Dec. 31, 2014
Taxable Industrial Revenue Bond [Member]
USD ($)
Dec. 31, 2014
Tax Exempt Industrial Revenue Bond Two [Member]
USD ($)
Line of Credit Facility [Line Items]                  
Short-term lines of credit maintained $ 9,200,000us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity € 400,000us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity £ 3,000,000us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityMaximumBorrowingCapacity            
Credit amount outstanding 0us-gaap_LineOfCredit     0us-gaap_LineOfCredit 0us-gaap_LineOfCredit
/ us-gaap_CreditFacilityAxis
= us-gaap_LetterOfCreditMember
       
Tax-exempt IRB maturing in 2020/2027/2029             4,120,000us-gaap_DebtInstrumentFaceAmount
/ us-gaap_DebtInstrumentAxis
= ap_TaxExemptIndustrialRevenueBondOneMember
7,116,000us-gaap_DebtInstrumentFaceAmount
/ us-gaap_DebtInstrumentAxis
= ap_TaxableIndustrialRevenueBondMember
2,075,000us-gaap_DebtInstrumentFaceAmount
/ us-gaap_DebtInstrumentAxis
= ap_TaxExemptIndustrialRevenueBondTwoMember
Interest at a floating rate on tax-exempt IRB maturing in 2020/2027/2029             0.10%us-gaap_DebtWeightedAverageInterestRate
/ us-gaap_DebtInstrumentAxis
= ap_TaxExemptIndustrialRevenueBondOneMember
0.15%us-gaap_DebtWeightedAverageInterestRate
/ us-gaap_DebtInstrumentAxis
= ap_TaxableIndustrialRevenueBondMember
0.12%us-gaap_DebtWeightedAverageInterestRate
/ us-gaap_DebtInstrumentAxis
= ap_TaxExemptIndustrialRevenueBondTwoMember
Expiry date of credit facility         Aug. 01, 2016        
Period for renewing the facility           1 year      
Available letter of credit facility         $ 13,566,000us-gaap_LineOfCreditFacilityCurrentBorrowingCapacity
/ us-gaap_CreditFacilityAxis
= us-gaap_LetterOfCreditMember