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Business segment (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2015
Business segment reporting [Abstract] |
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| Three Months Ended April 30,
| 2015 |  | 2014 |
Net sales |  |
Piping Systems |  | $20,277 |  |  | $42,354 |
Filtration Products | 17,397 |  | 17,170 |
Total |  | $37,674 |  |  | $59,524 |
Gross profit |  |
Piping Systems |  | $2,355 |  |  | $13,458 |
Filtration Products | 1,686 |  | 2,531 |
Total |  | $4,041 |  |  | $15,989 |
(Loss) income from operations |  |
Piping Systems |  | ($1,426 | ) |  | $8,017 |
Filtration Products | (1,230 | ) | (544 | )
Corporate | (2,144 | ) | (1,764 | )
Total |  | ($4,800 | ) |  | $5,709 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 21 -Subparagraph (b) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8721-108599 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 25 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8813-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 350 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=35741047&loc=d3e13816-109267 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8906-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 22 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8736-108599 + Details
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