Business Segments (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 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 June 30,						Six Months Ended June 30,
	2014			2013			2014			2013
Net sales
Fluid & Metering Technologies
External customers	$	225,866		$	225,214		$	448,873		$	436,621
Intersegment sales	234			274			588			622
Total group sales	226,100			225,488			449,461			437,243
Health & Science Technologies
External customers	184,849			179,111			368,741			350,785
Intersegment sales	823			1,756			3,306			2,950
Total group sales	185,672			180,867			372,047			353,735
Fire & Safety/Diversified Products
External customers	135,978			114,120			273,075			225,487
Intersegment sales	204			116			391			262
Total group sales	136,182			114,236			273,466			225,749
Intersegment elimination	(1,261		)	(2,146		)	(4,285		)	(3,834		)
Total net sales	$	546,693		$	518,445		$	1,090,689		$	1,012,893
Operating income
Fluid & Metering Technologies	$	55,623		$	56,115		$	112,030		$	104,194
Health & Science Technologies	36,137			34,522			72,366			66,789
Fire & Safety/Diversified Products	35,985			23,676			75,633			51,908
Corporate office and other	(15,657		)	(14,754		)	(34,106		)	(28,620		)
Total operating income	112,088			99,559			225,923			194,271
Interest expense	10,405			10,597			20,862			21,154
Other income (expense) - net	(137		)	(573		)	707			706
Income before income taxes	$	101,546		$	88,389		$	205,768		$	173,823



	June 30, 2014		December 31, 2013
Assets
Fluid & Metering Technologies	$	1,041,890	$	1,025,352
Health & Science Technologies	1,152,486		1,113,546
Fire & Safety/Diversified Products	525,659		484,139
Corporate office	270,962		264,540
Total assets	$	2,990,997	$	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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