Begin production at the multi-line facility in Frutal, Brazil
Delivered after the deadline
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- Announced
- 5 Nov 2020
- Due
- 30 Jun 2021
- Delivered
- by 31 Dec 2021
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“the new multi-line facility in Frutal, Brazil, will begin production in mid-2021”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company stated in August 2021 that the facility was on schedule for the second half of 2021, and later confirmed in 2022 that production began in 2021.
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A Ball Corporation 8-K filed 2021-08-05
“The previously announced multi-line facility in Frutal, Brazil, is on schedule to begin production in the second half of 2021.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Ball Corporation 10-K filed 2022-02-16
“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 lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- Deadline drift +184 days
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 5 Nov 2020
Deadline 30 Jun 2021 (“mid-2021”) · wording firm
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Version 2 · stated 4 Feb 2021
Deadline 31 Dec 2021 (“second half of 2021”) · wording firm
“The previously announced multi-line facility in Frutal, Brazil, will begin production in the second half of 2021.”
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
- Begin
- Deliverable
- multi-line facility
- Where
- Brazil
- Language
- Firm (“will”, “on track to”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
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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