Business Segments (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2014

Schedule of Information On Company's Business Segments

Information on the Company’s business segments is presented below, based on the nature of products and services offered. The Company evaluates performance based on several factors, of which operating income is the primary financial measure. Intersegment sales are accounted for at fair value as if the sales were to third parties.



	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2014			2013			2014			2013
Net sales
Fluid & Metering Technologies
External customers	$	223,018		$	212,054		$	671,891		$	648,675
Intersegment sales	240			283			828			905
Total group sales	223,258			212,337			672,719			649,580
Health & Science Technologies
External customers	189,975			177,674			558,716			528,459
Intersegment sales	877			954			4,183			3,904
Total group sales	190,852			178,628			562,899			532,363
Fire & Safety/Diversified Products
External customers	120,186			100,889			393,261			326,376
Intersegment sales	127			188			518			450
Total group sales	120,313			101,077			393,779			326,826
Intersegment elimination	(1,244		)	(1,425		)	(5,529		)	(5,259		)
Total net sales	$	533,179		$	490,617		$	1,623,868		$	1,503,510
Operating income
Fluid & Metering Technologies	$	54,791		$	51,736		$	166,821		$	155,930
Health & Science Technologies	42,214			36,775			114,580			103,564
Fire & Safety/Diversified Products	31,355			22,119			106,988			74,027
Corporate office and other	(17,513		)	(13,261		)	(51,619		)	(41,881		)
Total operating income	110,847			97,369			336,770			291,640
Interest expense	10,461			10,570			31,323			31,724
Other (income) expense - net	(944		)	188			(1,651		)	(518		)
Income before income taxes	$	101,330		$	86,611		$	307,098		$	260,434



	September 30, 2014		December 31, 2013
Assets
Fluid & Metering Technologies	$	1,029,719	$	1,025,352
Health & Science Technologies	1,127,605		1,113,546
Fire & Safety/Diversified Products	512,585		484,139
Corporate office	269,403		264,540
Total assets	$	2,939,312	$	2,887,577

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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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