Property, Plant and Equipment (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2020

Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]

Major classes of property, plant and equipment, including capital lease assets

As of August 31, 2020 and 2019, major classes of property, plant and equipment, which include finance lease assets, consisted of the amounts in the table below.

	2020		2019
	(Dollars in thousands)
Land and land improvements	$	317,714	$	319,452
Buildings	1,110,490		1,079,073
Machinery and equipment	7,559,437		7,392,767
Office equipment and other	362,084		346,649
Construction in progress	310,901		329,297
Gross property, plant and equipment	9,660,626		9,467,238
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization	4,702,688		4,378,530
Total property, plant and equipment	$	4,957,938	$	5,088,708