Complete the global acetic acid reconfiguration at the Clear Lake facility
Not delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 30 Jan 2020
- Due
- 31 Dec 2021
- Checked
- 20 Oct 2026
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“This project is on pace to be completed late next year”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Filings from 2022 and 2023 indicate that the acetic acid expansion project in Clear Lake, Texas, was still under construction well after the 2021 deadline.
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A Celanese 10-Q filed 2022-04-29
“Lastly, our planned acetic acid expansion in Clear Lake, Texas and our VAE emulsion plant expansion in Frankfurt, Germany, are still in construction and on schedule.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Celanese 10-Q filed 2022-07-29
“Lastly, our planned acetic acid expansion in Clear Lake, Texas and our VAE emulsion plant expansion in Frankfurt, Germany, are still in construction and on schedule.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Celanese 10-Q filed 2022-11-04
“Lastly, our planned acetic acid expansion in Clear Lake, Texas and our VAE emulsion plant expansion in Frankfurt, Germany, are still in construction and on schedule.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +7.9% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (28 Apr 2022 to 3 May 2022). What this measures
Checked 20 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 -365 days
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 30 Jan 2020
Deadline 31 Dec 2021 (“late next year”)
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Version 2 · stated 26 Oct 2020
Deadline 31 Dec 2020 (“fourth quarter”) · wording firm
“In the fourth quarter, we also have a turnaround scheduled for our Clear Lake acetic acid unit that will drive approximately $10 million of turnaround expense.”
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Version 3 · stated 28 Jan 2021
Deadline 30 Jun 2023 (“in the first half of 2023”)
“we have decided to resume the expansion in Clear Lake, which is scheduled for completion in the first half of 2023”
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
- Complete
- Deliverable
- Global acetic acid reconfiguration at Clear Lake
- Where
- Clear Lake
- 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.
- Third check on a negative finding: agreesBecause a negative finding could harm a company if wrong, a stronger model re-read the evidence fully blind and reached the same answer.
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