Accounts Receivable Securitization	9 Months Ended
Accounts Receivable Securitization	Sep. 30, 2015
Transfers and Servicing [Abstract]
Accounts Receivable Securitization	Accounts Receivable Securitization The company maintains an accounts receivable securitization program with a commitment size of $185.0 million, whereby transactions under the program are accounted for as sales in accordance with ASC Topic 860, “Transfers and Servicing.” Sales of trade receivables under the program are reflected as a reduction of accounts receivable in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and the proceeds received, including collections on the deferred purchase price notes, are included in cash flows from operating activities in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. The company deems the interest rate risk related to the deferred purchase price notes to be de minimis, primarily due to the short average collection cycle of the related receivables (i.e., less than 60 days) as noted below. On August 31, 2015, the company completed changes to its accounts receivable securitization program. Among other actions, the company entered into an amendment (the “First Amendment”) to the Fifth Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement (the “Receivables Purchase Agreement”), dated as of December 15, 2014, among Manitowoc Funding, LLC (“U.S. Seller”) and Manitowoc Cayman Islands Funding Ltd. (“Cayman Seller”), as sellers, the company, Garland Commercial Ranges Limited (“Garland”), Convotherm Elektrogeräte GmbH (“Convotherm”), Manitowoc Deutschland GmbH (“Manitowoc Deutschland”), Manitowoc Foodservice UK Limited (“Foodservice UK”), Manitowoc Foodservice Asia Pacific Private Limited (“Foodservice Asia”) and the other persons from time to time party thereto, as servicers, and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (the “Purchaser”), as purchaser and agent. As a result, (i) Foodservice Asia was added as an originator and as a servicer under the facility; and (ii) the company’s domestic foodservice business originators were effectively released from their obligations under the related purchase and sale agreement and will now sell their accounts receivable to the Cayman Seller (prior to these changes, these receivables were sold to the U.S. Seller; the accounts receivable of certain of the company’s cranes businesses will continue to be sold to the U.S. Seller). Trade accounts receivables sold to a third-party financial institution (“Purchaser”) and being serviced by the company totaled $152.8 million as of September 30, 2015 and $172.8 million at December 31, 2014. Due to an average collection cycle of less than 60 days for such accounts receivable as well as the company’s collection history, the fair value of the company’s deferred purchase price notes approximates book value. The fair value of the deferred purchase price notes recorded as of September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014 was $123.7 million and $50.9 million, respectively, and is included in accounts receivable in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The accounts receivable securitization program also contains customary affirmative and negative covenants. Among other restrictions, these covenants require the company to meet specified financial tests, which include a consolidated interest coverage ratio and a consolidated senior secured leverage ratio that are the same as the covenant ratios required under the Senior Credit Facility. As of September 30, 2015, the company was in compliance with all affirmative and negative covenants inclusive of the financial covenants pertaining to the accounts receivable securitization program. Based on the company's current plans and outlook, management believes the company will be able to comply with these covenants during the subsequent twelve months.

The entire disclosure for a transferor's continuing involvement in financial assets that it has transferred in a securitization or asset-backed financing arrangement, the nature of any restrictions on assets reported by an entity in its statement of financial position that relate to a transferred financial asset (including the carrying amounts of such assets), how servicing assets and servicing liabilities are reported, and (for securitization or asset-backed financing arrangements accounted for as sales) when a transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets and transfers of financial assets accounted for as secured borrowings, how the transfer of financial assets affects an entity's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows.