Commence operations at the new flat roll steel mill
Only part of the commitment was delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 28 Nov 2018
- Due
- 31 Dec 2021
- Delivered
- Part
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“followed by the commencement of operations in the second half of 2021”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The deadline has not passed yet, so there is nothing to check. We look for evidence starting 30 days after 31 Dec 2021.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- Deadline drift -92 days
- 3 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 28 Nov 2018
Deadline 31 Dec 2021 (“in the second half of 2021”)
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Version 2 · stated 27 Jan 2020
Deadline 30 Jun 2021 (“mid-year 2021”) · wording expected
“with current plans to commence operations mid-year 2021”
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Version 3 · stated 20 Apr 2021
Deadline 30 Sep 2021 (“late summer 2021”) · wording expected
“plans to commence steel production late summer 2021”
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Version 4 · stated 26 Jan 2022
Deadline 28 Feb 2022 (“before the end of February 2022”)
“full operations commencing before the end of February 2022”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Production start
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Commence
- Deliverable
- new flat roll steel mill
- Where
- United States
- 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: disagreesClaude (Anthropic) re-read the evidence blind and read it as “Met”.
- Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the recorded outcome.
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