Albemarle Corporation (ALB)

Lithium, bromine and catalyst chemicals maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 11, 2026. Ranked 24 of the 52 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A specialty chemicals company whose filing states 7,800 employees by region, joint ventures included, and nothing by segment, so chemical manufacturing leads by description with a fifth at mining for its brine and ore operations.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 19% now, 29% at the end of 2027, 34% at the end of 2028, 35% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 35% desk work, 12% people work and 53% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 63% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 31% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

7,800 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated as the United States: 3,100 (40%) in the U.S. and the Americas together, which includes the Chilean operations; the data service's 100% United States is not usable.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 7,800 employees, including employees of our consolidated joint ventures, of whom 3,100, or 40%, are employed in the U.S. and the Americas; 2,600, or 33%, are employed in Asia Pacific; 1,500, or 19%, are employed in Europe; and 600, or 8%, are employed in the Middle East or other areas.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 7,800 employees as of December 31, 2025 (8,300 a year earlier), including employees of consolidated joint ventures: 3,100 in the U.S. and the Americas, 2,600 in Asia Pacific, 1,500 in Europe, 600 in the Middle East and other areas; about 26% represented by unions or works councils; OSHA incident rate 0.16 for employees and nested contractors.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Linde plc (LIN, 65,177 employees)20% now, 39% by 2028
• Ecolab Inc. (ECL, 48,000 employees)19% now, 34% by 2028
• Dow Inc. (DOW, 34,600 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
• Corteva, Inc. (CTVA, 21,500 employees)15% now, 25% by 2028
• Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APD, 21,300 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
• LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (LYB, 18,970 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
• DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (DD, 15,000 employees)19% now, 35% by 2028
• Eastman Chemical Company (EMN, 13,000 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

14 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says integrating AI into its operations may bring new risks and require investment, that cyberattacks may grow more sophisticated with AI, and that it has adopted policies covering cybersecurity and AI with Board oversight.

• “Integration of AI technologies into our operations may introduce new risks, require significant additional investment, and materially impact our competitive position if unsuccessful.”
• “Cybersecurity attacks, especially in light of the advancement and proliferation of artificial intelligence ("AI") and machine learning technologies, may become more sophisticated over time.”
• “We have taken steps to prevent cybersecurity attacks, including by adopting Company policies covering cybersecurity and AI and engaging the Board of Directors in oversight of our cybersecurity efforts, and to mitigate the harm that would occur from a successful cybersecurity attack by purchasing insurance against cybersecurity attacks.”
• “Additionally, certain information technology systems we employ increasingly integrate AI, which has the potential to result in bias, miscalculations, data errors, intellectual property infringement and other unintended consequences.”
• “Although we have implemented certain processes, procedures and internal controls to help mitigate cybersecurity risks and cyber intrusions, these measures, as well as our increased awareness of the nature and extent of a risk of a cyber incident, do not guarantee that our financial results, operations or confidential information will not be negatively impacted by such an incident. 27 Albemarle...”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20240median 4
• Fiscal 202514median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The U.S. share is not stated: the filing counts the U.S. and the Americas together.
• The count includes employees of consolidated joint ventures as the filing states it.
• No count by segment: the split between chemical plants and mining is by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000915913-26-000018, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.