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Celanese

Restart the Clear Lake acid unit

Delivered by the deadline

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Announced
7 Aug 2023
Due
31 Mar 2024
Delivered
Q1 2024
  • Deadline
  • Met
  • Late
  • Not met
  • Today

What the company said

“The recasting and quality control of new parts, shipment, installation, and restarted commissioning process will push the initial earnings contribution from the new Clear Lake acid unit into early 2024.”
  • SourceCelanese Form 8-K press release, 2023-08-07
  • FilingSEC filing index
  • Deadline as statedinto early 2024
  • Deadline used31 Mar 2024, the last day of the stated period
  • TypeFacility
  • Permanent referenceKI-C-2023-CE-017431
    Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2023-CE-017431/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

Celanese successfully commissioned and started the Clear Lake acetic acid unit during the first quarter of 2024, meeting the commitment to restart the unit by early 2024.

  • A
    Celanese 10-Q filed 2024-05-10 Regulatory filing · published 10 May 2024 · retrieved 20 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 8ac563896364
    “the planned expansion of our acetic acid unit at Clear Lake, Texas was successfully commissioned and started in the first quarter of 2024 and is operating as designed” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved -1.7% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (9 May 2024 to 14 May 2024). What this measures

Checked 20 Oct 2026.

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
Restart
Deliverable
Clear Lake acid unit
Where
Clear Lake
Language
Firm (“will”, “on track to”)
In the company’s control
Medium
Specificity
Medium
Conditional
Yes: recasting and quality control of new parts, shipment, installation, and restarted commissioning process
Depends on
Supplier

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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