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Steel Dynamics

Begin operations at the aluminum flat rolled mill

Delivered after the deadline

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Announced
19 Jul 2022
Due
31 Mar 2025
Delivered
Q3 2025
  • Deadline
  • Met
  • Late
  • Not met
  • Today

What the company said

“The rolling mill is currently expected to begin operations in the first quarter 2025.”
  • SourceSteel Dynamics Form 8-K press release, 2022-07-19
  • FilingSEC filing index
  • Deadline as statedin the first quarter 2025
  • Deadline used31 Mar 2025, the last day of the stated period
  • TypeFacility
  • Permanent referenceKI-C-2022-STLD-015439
    Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2022-STLD-015439/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

The company missed its Q1 2025 deadline, as the aluminum flat rolled products mill did not begin operations until the second half of 2025.

  • A
    Steel Dynamics 10-K filed 2026-02-27 Regulatory filing · published 27 Feb 2026 · retrieved 19 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 878e7d33dd0e
    “The aluminum flat rolled products mill began operations in the second half of 2025.” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved +3.9% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (26 Feb 2026 to 3 Mar 2026). What this measures

Checked 19 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 +91 days
  • 2 versions
  1. Version 1 · original · stated 19 Jul 2022

    Deadline 31 Mar 2025 (“in the first quarter 2025”) · wording expected

  2. Version 2 · stated 24 Jan 2024

    Deadline 30 Jun 2025 (“mid-2025”) · wording expected

    “We still plan to begin commissioning of the aluminum flat rolled mill mid-2025.”

    Source for this version

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
aluminum flat rolled mill
Where
Southeastern United States
Language
Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
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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