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Inventories (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 29, 2012
Notes To Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Schedule of Inventory, Current | Inventories at September 29, 2012 and December 31, 2011 are as follows:
| Sep 29, 2012 |  |  | Dec 31, 2011 |
| (in thousands)
Raw materials and parts | $ | 75,616 |  |  | $ | 69,576 |
Work-in-process | 20,529 |  |  | 15,204 |
Finished goods | 50,617 |  |  | 39,261 |
| 146,762 |  |  | 124,041 |
LIFO reserve | 259 |  |  | 259 |
| $ | 147,021 |  |  | $ | 124,300 |

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