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Income Taxes - Deferred Income Tax Assets and Liabilities and Valuation Allowances Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions | 7 Months Ended | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2022 | Dec. 31, 2023 | Dec. 31, 2022 | Dec. 31, 2021
Tax Credit Carryforward [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Deferred Tax Assets, Operating Loss and Tax Credit Carryforwards | $ 279.7 | $ 222.6 | $ 279.7 |
Deferred Tax Assets, Operating Loss and Tax Credit Carryforwards, Not Subject to Expiration |  | 110.8 |  |
Deferred Tax Assets, Valuation Allowance | 217.5 | 267.1 | 217.5 |
Valuation allowance, deferred tax asset, increase (decrease), amount |  | 36.1 | 8.9 |
Tekfor Group |  |  |  |
Tax Credit Carryforward [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Deferred Taxes, Business Combination, Valuation Allowance, Available to Reduce Income Tax Expense | $ 7.8 |  |  |
United States |  |  |  |
Tax Credit Carryforward [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Deferred Tax Assets, Valuation Allowance |  |  |  | $ 7.0
Valuation allowance, deferred tax asset, increase (decrease), amount |  | 31.0 | 15.7 | 1.9
Non-US |  |  |  |
Tax Credit Carryforward [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Valuation allowance, deferred tax asset, increase (decrease), amount |  | $ 8.9 | $ 0.6 | $ 0.8

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- Definition The sum of the tax effects as of the balance sheet date of the amount of excesses of tax deductions over gross income in a year which cannot be used on the tax returns in the current year but can be carried forward to reduce taxable income or income taxes payable in a future year, for which there must be sufficient tax-basis income to utilize a portion or all of the carryforward amount to realize the deferred tax asset. Amount also includes the tax effect as of the balance sheet date of the amount of future tax deductions arising from all unused tax credit carryforwards which have been reduced by a valuation allowance. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Amount of deferred tax assets for which it is more likely than not that a tax benefit will not be realized. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Topic 740 -SubTopic 10 -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (c) -Publisher FASB -URI https://asc.fasb.org//1943274/2147482685/740-10-50-2 + Details
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- Definition The amount of the valuation allowance recorded in a business combination against deductible temporary differences for which related tax benefits will be recorded as a reduction of the acquired entity's income tax expense (after such benefits are first being applied to reduce goodwill and then other noncurrent intangible assets to zero). + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 805 -SubTopic 740 -Section 25 -Paragraph 3 -Publisher FASB -URI https://asc.fasb.org//1943274/2147479692/805-740-25-3 + Details
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- Definition 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. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Amount of increase (decrease) in the valuation allowance for a specified deferred tax asset. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Topic 740 -SubTopic 10 -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Publisher FASB -URI https://asc.fasb.org//1943274/2147482685/740-10-50-2 + Details
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