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Property, Plant, and Equipment

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2011

Property, Plant, and Equipment

Property, Plant, and Equipment

4. Property, Plant, and Equipment

Property, plant, and equipment consist of:

		March 31,
		2011				2010
Land, buildings, and improvements		$	174,887			$	161,211
Machinery and equipment			475,818				443,799
Construction in progress			51,662				29,041
			702,367				634,051
Less accumulated depreciation			(357,982	)			(318,910	)
Total		$	344,385			$	315,141

Depreciation expense for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 totaled $43,517, $44,145, and $46,694, respectively. Interest capitalized in connection with major construction projects amounted to $1,292, $929, and $1,062 for the fiscal years ended March 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

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Disclosure of long-lived, physical assets that are used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale. Examples include land, building and production equipment. This disclosure may include property plant and equipment accounting policies and methodology, a schedule of property, plant and equipment gross, additions, deletions, transfers and other changes, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, net, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense and useful lives, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures. This element may be used as a single block of text to include the entire PPE disclosure, including data and tables.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher AICPA
-Name Accounting Principles Board Opinion (APB)
-Number 12
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