Begin construction of a new flat roll steel mill
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 28 Nov 2018
- Due
- 31 Dec 2020
- Delivered
- by 1 Jan 2019
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“the company would expect to begin construction in 2020”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company began construction of the Southwest-Sinton Flat Roll Division in 2019, which satisfies the commitment to begin construction by 2020.
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A Steel Dynamics 10-K filed 2021-03-01
“Construction of the Southwest-Sinton Flat Roll Division (Sinton) began in 2019” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +7.2% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (26 Feb 2021 to 3 Mar 2021). What this measures
Checked 18 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Facility other
- Indicative materiality
- Medium rules
- Action
- Begin
- Deliverable
- new flat roll steel mill
- Where
- United States
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- Medium
- Conditional
- Yes: final site selection; receipt of required environmental and operating permits
- Depends on
- Regulatory
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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