Begin production at the new Southern U.S. coating lines
Delivered by the deadline
AI-assessed · human review in progress Found and assessed by AI from the cited sources. Shown with its evidence; it is not counted in any Kept Score until confirmed.
- Announced
- 19 Apr 2021
- Due
- 31 Dec 2022
- Delivered
- by 31 Dec 2022
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The company currently expects the new Southern U.S. coating lines to begin production in the second half of 2022.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company's filings confirm the Sinton division, which includes the new coating lines, was operational with significant production capacity by the end of 2022.
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A Steel Dynamics 10-K filed 2023-02-28
“Our Southwest-Sinton Flat Roll Division (Sinton) is a prime example of our internal growth and differentiated business model. This electric arc furnace (EAF) flat roll steel mill has approximately 3.0 million tons of annual steel production capacity” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Steel Dynamics 10-K filed 2024-02-29
“We produced 9.2 million tons of sheet steel at these facilities in 2023, 8.3 million tons in 2022, and 7.6 million tons in 2021.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +9.5% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (27 Feb 2023 to 2 Mar 2023). What this measures
Checked 19 Oct 2026.
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
- Southern U.S. coating lines
- Where
- Southern U.S.
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- 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: disagreesClaude (Anthropic) re-read the evidence blind and read it as “Not met”.
- Tie-breakA stronger model read the evidence and both earlier answers, without knowing which was recorded, and agrees with the second check.
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