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Annual Impairment Testing, Percent Decline, Fair Value

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Annual Impairment Testing, Percent Decline in Operating Segment

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Goodwill, Excess of Fair Value Over Carrying Value, Percent

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The aggregate expense charged against earnings to allocate the cost of intangible assets (nonphysical assets not used in production) in a systematic and rational manner to the periods expected to benefit from such assets. As a noncash expense, this element is added back to net income when calculating cash provided by or used in operations using the indirect method.

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Amount of assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, that lack physical substance, having a projected indefinite period of benefit, acquired at the acquisition date.

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Amount of intangible assets, excluding goodwill, acquired at the acquisition date.

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Percentage of assumed long-term growth in revenues, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Amount of amortization expense for assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, lacking physical substance with a finite life expected to be recognized during the next fiscal year following the latest fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported on a rolling approach, from latest balance sheet date.

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Amount of amortization expense for assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, lacking physical substance with a finite life expected to be recognized during the fifth fiscal year following the latest fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported on a rolling approach, from latest balance sheet date.

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Amount of amortization expense for assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, lacking physical substance with a finite life expected to be recognized during the third fiscal year following the latest fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported on a rolling approach, from latest balance sheet date.

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Amount of amortization expense for assets, excluding financial assets and goodwill, lacking physical substance with a finite life expected to be recognized during the second fiscal year following the latest fiscal year. Excludes interim and annual periods when interim periods are reported on a rolling approach, from latest balance sheet date.

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Amount after accumulated impairment loss of an asset representing future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.

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Goodwill and Intangible Assets (Additional Information) (Detail) (USD $)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012	Jan. 04, 2011
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Line Items]
Amortization expense	$ 6,100,000us-gaap_AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets	$ 6,000,000us-gaap_AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets	$ 4,400,000us-gaap_AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets
Estimated future amortization expense for 2015	5,300,000
Estimated future amortization expense for 2016	4,900,000
Estimated future amortization expense for 2017	4,500,000
Estimated future amortization expense for 2018	3,900,000
Estimated future amortization expense for 2019	3,400,000
Goodwill acquired	98,227,000us-gaap_Goodwill	108,671,000us-gaap_Goodwill
Annual Impairment Testing
Sensitivity analysis, Decline in fair value of segment, Percent	10.00%
High Performance Foams [Member]
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Line Items]
Goodwill acquired	23,565,000	24,205,000
Annual Impairment Testing
Fair value of goodwill in excess of carrying value, Percent	318.00%
Sensitivity analysis, Fair value of goodwill in excess of carrying value, Percent	277.00%
Sensitivity analysis, Discount rate used	13.00%
Sensitivity analysis, Terminal year growth rate	3.00%
Curamik Electronics Solutions [Member]
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Line Items]
Goodwill acquired	72,400,000
Annual Impairment Testing
Fair value of goodwill in excess of carrying value, Percent	85.00%
Sensitivity analysis, Fair value of goodwill in excess of carrying value, Percent	65.00%
Sensitivity analysis, Discount rate used	15.50%
Sensitivity analysis, Terminal year growth rate	3.00%
Elastomer Component Division [Member]
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Line Items]
Goodwill acquired	2,200,000
Annual Impairment Testing
Fair value of goodwill in excess of carrying value, Percent	77.00%
Sensitivity analysis, Fair value of goodwill in excess of carrying value, Percent	60.00%
Sensitivity analysis, Discount rate used	13.00%
Sensitivity analysis, Terminal year growth rate	3.00%
Curamik Electronics GmbH [Member]
Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Line Items]
Intangible assets acquired				52,400,000
Goodwill acquired				79,800,000
Trademarks acquired				$ 5,300,000