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Ball Corporation

Start up a multi-line beverage can plant in Brazil

Delivered after the deadline

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Announced
31 Oct 2019
Due
31 Dec 2020
Delivered
Q1 2021
  • Deadline
  • Met
  • Late
  • Not met
  • Today

What the company said

“an additional multi-line beverage can plant will start up in Brazil during the fourth quarter of 2020”
  • SourceBall Corporation Form 8-K press release, 2019-10-31
  • FilingSEC filing index
  • Deadline as statedduring the fourth quarter of 2020
  • Deadline used31 Dec 2020, the last day of the stated period
  • TypeFacility
  • Permanent referenceKI-C-2019-BALL-014544
    Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2019-BALL-014544/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

The company announced the plant would start in Q4 2020, but later filings confirm the facility in Frutal, Brazil, began production in 2021.

  • A
    Ball Corporation 10-K filed 2022-02-16 Regulatory filing · published 16 Feb 2022 · retrieved 18 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint f5b00a2c2d91
    “the previously announced multi-line facility in Frutal, Brazil, recently began production in 2021” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved +1.3% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (15 Feb 2022 to 18 Feb 2022). 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
Start
Deliverable
multi-line beverage can plant in Brazil
Where
Brazil
Language
Firm (“will”, “on track to”)
In the company’s control
High
Specificity
High

How this entry was checked

  1. Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
  2. First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
  3. 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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