Business Segments (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Financial Information by Reportable Business Segment

Financial information by reportable business segment is included in the following summary:


In thousands	2011		2010			2009			2011			2010			2009
	Net sales to external customers								Operating income (loss)
Water & Fluid Solutions	$	2,369,804	$	2,041,281		$	1,847,764		$	58,311		$	231,588		$	163,745
Technical Products		1,086,882		989,492			844,704			185,240			151,533			100,355
Other		—		—			—			(75,034	)		(48,966	)		(44,152	)

Consolidated	$	3,456,686	$	3,030,773		$	2,692,468		$	168,517		$	334,155		$	219,948


	Identifiable assets ⁽¹⁾								Depreciation
Water & Fluid Solutions	$	3,792,188	$	3,409,556		$	3,205,774		$	42,419		$	37,449		$	44,063
Technical Products		651,693		728,969			716,092			17,826			17,544			19,035
Other ⁽¹⁾		142,432		(164,992	)		(10,532	)		5,990			3,002			1,725

Consolidated	$	4,586,313	$	3,973,533		$	3,911,334		$	66,235		$	57,995		$	64,823


	Amortization								Capital expenditures
Water & Fluid Solutions	$	39,451	$	22,981		$	34,919		$	49,241		$	39,631		$	36,513
Technical Products		2,446		2,610			2,687			15,806			8,336			15,388
Other		—		593			3,051			8,301			11,556			2,236

Consolidated	$	41,897	$	26,184		$	40,657		$	73,348		$	59,523		$	54,137

Geographic Information

The following table presents certain geographic information:

In thousands	2011		2010		2009		2011		2010		2009
	Net sales to external customers						Long-lived assets
U.S.	$	2,336,845	$	2,222,856	$	1,964,138	$	195,631	$	196,440	$	203,206
Europe		701,865		470,879		439,312		140,290		77,000		87,880
Asia and other		417,976		337,038		289,018		51,604		55,995		42,602

Consolidated	$	3,456,686	$	3,030,773	$	2,692,468	$	387,525	$	329,435	$	333,688

⁽¹⁾All cash and cash equivalents are included in Other

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of information concerning material long-lived assets (excluding financial instruments, customer relationships with financial institutions, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred taxes assets) located in identified geographic areas and/or the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to that country from which revenue is material. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries.

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- Definition

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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