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Expera has not presented any formal plans on a specific use for the building, just the request to raise the roof and stack.

We talked last week about what is not in a contract and the premise that in the eyes of the law in most places, if money has exchanged hands you have a contract. This week I wanted to take a higher level look at what one might want to include in a contract. And, we'll further simplify it by focusing on a contract that is of the "time and material" variety...

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Quad/Graphics Inc. has agreed to pay $750,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that the firm violated security requirements involving personally identifiable information on contracts with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO).

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Stora Enso has inaugurated its new consumer board mill in Beihai, China. The mill started up in May and it is expected to reach full production within 18 to 24 months.

The $64 million investment includes new state-of-the-art converting lines that are scheduled for commissioning at the end of the first quarter of 2017.

Weyerhaeuser Co. announced this week that it will sell its Longview liquid packaging plant -- a major portion of the Longview operations -- to Nippon Paper Industries for $285 million.

It was announced this week that Toscotec will rebuild the dryer section of Smurfit Kappa Papelsa's PM 1 at its Barbosa mill in Colombia.

Sunbelt Forest Products announced this week the purchase of a pressure treated wood facility in Athens, Alabama, from Georgia-Pacific.

IP International Holdings, Inc, and International Paper Investments (Luxembourg), both group entities, have proposed acquisition of 20.05 percent and 54.95 percent shares in listed entity International Paper APPM Limited from IP Holdings Asia Singapore pte Holdings, Inc.

Egg cartons and cup carrier-maker Huhtamaki Lurgan expects to boost its output by up to 25 percent after shelling out £5 million installing new purpose built machinery.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation on Tuesday announced that Scott Usitalo has been named chief marketing officer, reporting to Tony Palmer, president of global brands and innovation.

Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has signed a letter of intent to purchase certain assets of Robbins Manufacturing Co.

The antitrust watchdog said Monday it discovered 45 companies, including the industry's leading Tailim Packaging Co. and Asia Paper MFG Co., collusively cut the unit cost of corrugated board paper, which is the core raw material for shipping containers and cardboard boxes, and sold the final product at a fixed higher price between 2007 and 2014.

Ron Van Den Heuvel expected his Green Box businesses to garner national -- if not worldwide -- notoriety for turning trash into treasure. Instead, the business has drawn the attention of no less than five federal agencies that are investigating Van Den Heuvel and the long list of companies he created. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service have been involved in the investigation.

Numerous emergency crews responded to a fire near the former Domtar paper mill in Port Edward, Wisconsin late Friday afternoon.

Indonesia is piling the pressure on Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) to hand over information relating to its concession lands, many of which are on highly flammable peatland.

Glatfelter says it is working to complete its US $63 million renovations to convert from coal to natural gas boilers at its Spring Grove facility by the end of the year.

Both meetings will be held on July 20. DuPont's meeting will take place at its Wilmington, Delaware, headquarters, and Dow Chemical's meeting will be at its Midland, Michigan, offices.

Georgia-Pacific announced this week that it has bought Santa Fe Springs Calif.-based Reliable Container Corp. for an undisclosed amount.

The case would affect between 4,000 to 5,000 retirees and spouses nationwide.

It is true that if you want something in a contract, you must put it in the contract. It is also true that there are things not in a contract that are implied. A basic principle in the laws in the United States at least is this: if you accept money to do a task, there is a contract. It may be a verbal contract, but it is indeed a contract. Unfortunately, such contracts, if they involve a substantial claim by one party against another, will be sorted out the expensive way--in court. Here's an example...

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