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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		6 Months Ended		3 Months Ended			3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
	Apr. 30, 2014	Apr. 30, 2013	Apr. 30, 2014 Assets	Apr. 30, 2013	Apr. 30, 2014 Other Miscellaneous Equipment [Member]	Apr. 30, 2014 Flexible Products & Services [Member] Assets	Oct. 31, 2013 Flexible Products & Services [Member] Assets	Apr. 30, 2014 Land Management [Member]	Apr. 30, 2014 Land Management [Member]	Apr. 30, 2014 Paper Packaging [Member] Other Miscellaneous Equipment [Member]	Apr. 30, 2014 Paper Packaging [Member] Other Development Land [Member]	Apr. 30, 2014 Rigid Industrial Packaging & Services [Member]
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]
Number of assets group with assets held for sale						2	2
Number of assets group disposed			1
Number of assets group newly added			1
Gain (loss) on disposals of property, plant and equipment, net	$ 1.5	$ 3.1	$ 2.3	$ 4.3				$ 1.3	$ 2.7		$ 0.8
Gain (loss) on disposal of equity method investment					0.2					0.5		(1.7)
Gain (loss) on sale of timberland	$ 8.2		$ 16.9

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