Close the Food Ingredients joint venture transaction with Mitsui

Delivered by the deadline

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Announced: 23 Feb 2023
Due: 30 Sep 2023
Delivered: 27 Sep 2023

Deadline
Met
Late
Not met
Today

What the company said

“The parties expect the transaction to close during the third quarter of 2023.”

SourceCelanese Form 8-K press release, 2023-02-23
FilingSEC filing index
Deadline as statedduring the third quarter of 2023
Deadline used30 Sep 2023, the last day of the stated period
TypeTransaction
Permanent referenceKI-C-2023-CE-017417
Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2023-CE-017417/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

Celanese successfully closed the food ingredients joint venture transaction with Mitsui on September 27, 2023, which falls within the third quarter of 2023.

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Celanese 10-Q filed 2023-11-08 Regulatory filing · published 8 Nov 2023 · retrieved 20 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint bb9c12cef088
“On September 27, 2023, the Company formed a food ingredients joint venture with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. ("Mitsui") under the name Nutrinova.” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved +0.8% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (7 Nov 2023 to 10 Nov 2023). 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 +92 days
2 versions

Version 1 · original · stated 23 Feb 2023

Deadline 30 Sep 2023 (“during the third quarter of 2023”) · wording expected
Version 2 · stated 9 May 2023

Deadline 31 Dec 2023 (“in the second half”) · wording expected

“The transaction is expected to close in the second half”
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: Acquisition close
Indicative materiality: High rules
Action: Close
Deliverable: Food Ingredients joint venture
Language: Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
In the company’s control: Medium
Specificity: High
Conditional: Yes: subject to customary approvals
Depends on: Partner, Regulatory

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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