As we wrap up procurement month, I want to talk to you about performance-based contracts. These are very different from most other contracts. They can be complicated to write, but if awarded to a competent bidder, can bring guaranteed results...
Procurement has evolved through a system of integrating people systems, structures and practices into one process based on the insights of all the linked departments. The goal has been to optimize project results, reduce waste, increase value, and maximize efficiency...
Even if Resolute wins in court, many members of the public will see the issue as a sign that big companies can bully environmental activists, so both Resolute and the industry as whole will suffer. The litigation will probably benefit Greenpeace, since it will be used as a fund raiser.
A Seattle law firm has mailed "advertisements" to Port Townsend residents soliciting people willing to participate in a possible class-action lawsuit against alleged "noxious odors" emitted at Port Townsend Paper Corp.
While the demand for heavy duty paper bags produced by processing kraft paper is decreasing on a long-term basis, the demand for paper bags for food remains generally strong, the company said.
Verso Corp. said Thursday it could emerge from bankruptcy by the end of July. The announcement came the same day a federal judge confirmed Verso's Chapter 11 reorganization plan -- a major step in the bankruptcy process -- and nearly five months since the company sought bankruptcy protection in late January.
Federal regulators have opened an investigation into the accident that critically injured a longshoreman aboard a ship at the Weyerhaeuser Co. log dock Tuesday.
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