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Enovis Corp. – ‘10-Q’ for 7/2/21 – ‘EX-101.PRE’

On:  Wednesday, 7/28/21, at 4:17pm ET   ·   For:  7/2/21   ·   Accession #:  1420800-21-28   ·   File #:  1-34045

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 7/28/21  Colfax Corp.                      10-Q        7/02/21   76:8.6M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    868K 
 2: EX-10.1     Material Contract                                   HTML    772K 
 3: EX-31.01    Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     27K 
 4: EX-31.02    Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     27K 
 5: EX-32.01    Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     22K 
 6: EX-32.02    Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     22K 
13: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     78K 
14: R2          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income         HTML    118K 
15: R3          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive  HTML     58K 
                Income (Loss)                                                    
16: R4          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive  HTML     29K 
                Income (Loss) [Parenthetical]                                    
17: R5          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML    112K 
18: R6          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML     32K 
                [Parenthetical]                                                  
19: R7          Condensed Consolidated Statement of Equity          HTML     96K 
20: R8          Condensed Consolidated Statement of Equity          HTML     25K 
                Statement of Stockholders' Equity [Parenthetical]                
21: R9          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows     HTML     95K 
22: R10         General                                             HTML     30K 
23: R11         Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements           HTML     33K 
24: R12         Discontinued Operations                             HTML     25K 
25: R13         Acquisitions Acquisitions (Notes)                   HTML     25K 
26: R14         Revenue                                             HTML     58K 
27: R15         Net Income (Loss) Per Share from Continuing         HTML     50K 
                Operations                                                       
28: R16         Income Taxes                                        HTML     25K 
29: R17         Equity                                              HTML     74K 
30: R18         Inventories, Net (Text Block)                       HTML     30K 
31: R19         Debt                                                HTML     43K 
32: R20         Accrued Liabilities                                 HTML     82K 
33: R21         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     83K 
34: R22         Commitments and Contingencies (Text Block)          HTML     42K 
35: R23         Segment Information                                 HTML     73K 
36: R24         Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements           HTML     34K 
                (Policies)                                                       
37: R25         Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements (Tables)  HTML     27K 
38: R26         Revenue (Tables)                                    HTML     54K 
39: R27         Net Income (Loss) Per Share from Continuing         HTML     47K 
                Operations (Tables)                                              
40: R28         Equity (Tables)                                     HTML     68K 
41: R29         Inventories, Net (Tables)                           HTML     31K 
42: R30         Debt (Tables)                                       HTML     32K 
43: R31         Accrued Liabilities (Tables)                        HTML     86K 
44: R32         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     93K 
                (Tables)                                                         
45: R33         Commitments and Contingencies (Tables)              HTML     40K 
46: R34         Segment Information (Tables)                        HTML     67K 
47: R35         General (Details)                                   HTML     32K 
48: R36         Discontinued Operations - Narratives (Details)      HTML     31K 
49: R37         Acquisitions - Narrative (Details)                  HTML     52K 
50: R38         Revenue - Disaggregation of Revenue (Details)       HTML     36K 
51: R39         Revenue - Narrative (Details)                       HTML     30K 
52: R40         Revenue - Allowance for Credit Loss Rollforward     HTML     31K 
                (Details)                                                        
53: R41         Net Income (Loss) Per Share from Continuing         HTML     46K 
                Operations (Details)                                             
54: R42         Net Income (Loss) Per Share from Continuing         HTML     29K 
                Operations - Narrative (Details)                                 
55: R43         Income Taxes (Details)                              HTML     34K 
56: R44         Equity Textual (Details)                            HTML     51K 
57: R45         Equity - AOCI Components (Details)                  HTML     61K 
58: R46         Inventories, Net (Details)                          HTML     33K 
59: R47         Debt - Components (Details)                         HTML     38K 
60: R48         Debt -Textual (Details)                             HTML    106K 
61: R49         Accrued Liabilities - Chart (Details)               HTML     47K 
62: R50         Accrued Liabilities - Warranty Liability            HTML     34K 
                Rollforward (Details)                                            
63: R51         Accrued Liabilities -Restructuring Rollforward      HTML     52K 
                (Details)                                                        
64: R52         Accrued Liabilities - Textual (Details)             HTML     33K 
65: R53         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     22K 
                (Details)                                                        
66: R54         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements-  HTML     41K 
                Fair Value Hierarchy (Details)                                   
67: R55         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     23K 
                - Foreign Currency Contracts Notional Values                     
                (Details)                                                        
68: R56         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     31K 
                - Gain (Loss) On Derivative Instruments (Details)                
69: R57         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     30K 
                - Schedule of Cash and Cash Equivalents and                      
                Restricted Cash (Details)                                        
70: R58         Claims Rollforward (Details)                        HTML     27K 
71: R59         Asbestos Litigation (Details 1)                     HTML     27K 
72: R60         Segment Information (Details)                       HTML     49K 
74: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    132K 
12: XML         XBRL Instance -- cfx-20210702_htm                    XML   1.80M 
73: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     85K 
 8: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- cfx-20210702_cal                XML    166K 
 9: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- cfx-20210702_def                 XML    393K 
10: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- cfx-20210702_lab                      XML   1.30M 
11: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- cfx-20210702_pre               XML    723K 
 7: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- cfx-20210702                          XSD    149K 
75: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              331±   462K 
76: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001420800-21-000028-xbrl      Zip    425K

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