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Income Taxes - Reconciliation of the Provision for Income Taxes (Detail)

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Income Taxes - Reconciliation of the Provision for Income Taxes (Detail) (USD $)
In Thousands, unless otherwise specified
12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
Mar. 31, 2014
Mar. 31, 2013
Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation, Amount [Abstract]      
Provision for income taxes at federal rate $ 7,613us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate $ 5,149us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate $ 5,452us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationIncomeTaxExpenseBenefitAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate
State taxes (103)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes (139)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes (173)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes
Charges not deductible for income tax purposes 79us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationNondeductibleExpense 59us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationNondeductibleExpense 78us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationNondeductibleExpense
Recognition of tax benefit generated by qualified production activities deduction (382)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationDeductionsQualifiedProductionActivities (403)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationDeductionsQualifiedProductionActivities (417)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationDeductionsQualifiedProductionActivities
Research and development tax credits (180)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxCreditsResearch (80)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxCreditsResearch (307)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxCreditsResearch
Valuation allowance 214us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInDeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance 174us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInDeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance 144us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationChangeInDeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance
Uncertain tax positions   (134)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxContingencies 90us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxContingencies
Contingent earn-out     (326)ghm_IncomeTaxReconciliationContingentEarnout
Other (224)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherAdjustments (61)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherAdjustments (112)us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherAdjustments
Total provision for income taxes $ 7,017us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit $ 4,565us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit $ 4,429us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit