Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Goodwill, Impairment Loss

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operations, Incremental Costs

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Payments for Divestiture of Business, Escrow Deposits

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Amount of consideration received or receivable for the disposal of assets and liabilities, including discontinued operation.

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Amount classified as goodwill attributable to disposal group held for sale or disposed of.

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Amount before tax of gain (loss) recognized on the sale or disposal of a disposal group. Excludes discontinued operations.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The cash inflow associated with the amount received from the sale of a portion of the company's business, for example a segment, division, branch or other business, during the period.

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Divestiture - Narrative (Details) € in Thousands, $ in Thousands				3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Feb. 01, 2020 USD ($)	Feb. 01, 2020 EUR (€)	Dec. 20, 2019 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 20, 2019 EUR (€)
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Proceeds from the sale of businesses, net of cash sold						$ 0
Loss on sale					$ 6,677	0	$ 0
Seeger Orbis GmbH &Co. OHG and Seeger-Orbis Mechanical Components (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. [Member] \| Disposal Group, Held-for-sale, Not Discontinued Operations [Member]
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Consideration \| €								€ 42,500
Goodwill			$ 15,000			15,000
Impairment of goodwill			$ 5,600			$ 5,600
Seeger Orbis GmbH &Co. OHG and Seeger-Orbis Mechanical Components (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. [Member] \| Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations [Member]
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Proceeds from the sale of businesses	$ 42,915	€ 38,964
Proceeds from the sale of businesses, net of cash sold	$ 36,062
Loss on sale				$ 4,211
Divestiture charges					$ 2,466
Escrow deposits \| €		€ 6,000