Start steel production at the Sinton Texas EAF Flat Roll Steel Mill
Not delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 21 Oct 2021
- Due
- 31 Dec 2021
- Checked
- 18 Oct 2026
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Actual steel production is still planned to start before the end of 2021”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The company stated that while certain coating operations began in late 2021, the rest of the operations at the Sinton facility did not commence until early 2022.
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A Steel Dynamics 10-K filed 2022-02-28
“Southwest-Sinton Flat Roll Division is nearing the conclusion of construction, with certain coating operations commenced in late 2021, and the rest of operations commencing in early 2022.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +9.0% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (25 Feb 2022 to 2 Mar 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.
- 1 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 21 Oct 2021
Deadline 31 Dec 2021 (“before the end of 2021”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 10 Jul 2023
Deadline 30 Jul 2023 (“before July 30, 2023”)
“expectations for restart within the next two to four weeks, or before July 30, 2023.”
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
- Start
- Deliverable
- Sinton Texas EAF Flat Roll Steel Mill
- Where
- Texas
- 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: 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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