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Document Fiscal Year Focus Document Fiscal Year Focus Noncontrolling Interests Noncontrolling Interest [Member] Income Statement [Abstract] Income Statement [Abstract] Entity Address, Address Line One Entity Address, Address Line One Debt Instrument, Name [Domain] Debt Instrument, Name [Domain] Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash Effect of Exchange Rate on Cash, Cash Equivalents, Restricted Cash, and Restricted Cash Equivalents, Continuing Operations Name Forgone Recovery, Individual Name Document Period End Date Document Period End Date Inventory valuation reserves Inventory Valuation Reserves Current Portion of Finance Leases Finance Lease, Liability, Current Finished Goods Inventory, Finished Goods, Net of Reserves Award Timing MNPI Considered Award Timing MNPI Considered [Flag] Insider Trading Arrangements [Line Items] All Other Segment Reporting, Reconciling Item, Excluding Corporate Nonsegment [Member] Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] Inventory Disclosure [Abstract] Outstanding Aggregate Erroneous Compensation Amount Outstanding Aggregate Erroneous Compensation Amount Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items] Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items] PEO Actually Paid Compensation Amount PEO Actually Paid Compensation Amount Adjustment to Compensation: Adjustment to Compensation [Axis] Net Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Noncontrolling Interest Credit agreement, increase limit Line of Credit Facility, Accordion Feature, Increase Limit Line of Credit Facility, Accordion Feature, Increase Limit Document Transition Report Document Transition Report Document Quarterly Report Document Quarterly Report Latin America Latin America [Member] Customer [Domain] Customer [Domain] Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss Beginning balance Ending balance Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax Entity Current Reporting Status Entity Current Reporting Status Retained Income (Deficit) Retained Earnings [Member] Pension Adjustments Service Cost Pension Adjustments Service Cost [Member] Basic Weighted Average Shares Outstanding (in shares) Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding, Basic Stock Price or TSR Estimation Method Stock Price or TSR Estimation Method [Text Block] Total Shareholders’ Equity Balance, beginning balance Balance, ending balance Equity, Including Portion Attributable to Noncontrolling Interest Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward] Increase (Decrease) in Stockholders' Equity [Roll Forward] North America North America [Member] Production and Intervention Production And Intervention [Member] Production And Intervention Executive Category: Executive Category [Axis] Name Awards Close in Time to MNPI Disclosures, Individual Name Entity Filer Category Entity Filer Category Income Statement Location [Domain] Statement of Income Location, Balance [Domain] Costs and Expenses: Cost of Revenue [Abstract] Company Selected Measure Name Company Selected Measure Name