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Net Assets Held for Sales and Disposals of Property, Plant and Equipment, Net - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)
In Millions, unless otherwise specified
 3 Months Ended 3 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2014
Assets
Jan. 31, 2013
Jan. 31, 2014
Flexible Products & Services [Member]
Assets
Oct. 31, 2013
Flexible Products & Services [Member]
Assets
Jan. 31, 2014
Land Management [Member]
Jan. 31, 2014
Paper Packaging [Member]
Other Development Land [Member]
Jan. 31, 2014
Paper Packaging [Member]
Other Miscellaneous Equipment [Member]
Jan. 31, 2014
Rigid Industrial Packaging & Services [Member]
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]                
Number of assets group with assets held for sale     1 2        
Number of assets group disposed 1              
Gain (loss) on disposals of property, plant and equipment, net $ 0.8 $ 1.2     $ 1.4 $ 0.8 $ 0.3  
Disposal of equity method investment               1.7
Gain (loss) on sale of timberland $ 8.7 $ 0