Avantor, Inc. (AVTR)
Lab products distributor and maker, 36% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 11, 2026. Ranked 29 of the 95 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
23%
End of 2028
41%
Employees, annual report
13,500
Leading staffing pattern
Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now23%
- End of 202736%
- End of 202841%
- End of 203043%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 56%
- Becomes checking a model's work 34%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
The filing states 13,500 associates, 4,800 in the U.S. and 2,000 in services at customer sites, distributing and making laboratory materials, so the split is by description.
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: 23% now, 36% at the end of 2027, 41% at the end of 2028, 43% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 43% desk work, 19% people work and 38% 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 56% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 34% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
13,500 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Approximately 4,800 of 13,500 associates in the U.S. (36%), stated.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 13,500 employees located in over 30 different countries in a variety of roles. Approximately 4,800 of our associates were employed in the U.S.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers | 45% | The VWR channel distributes third-party materials and consumables (47% of revenue) and private label products from over 5,000 suppliers to laboratories, which NAICS counts with medical and laboratory equipment wholesalers (423450), read by description (c) as the largest part since the filing counts no employees by business beyond the services organization. |
| Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only) | 40% | Proprietary materials and consumables are 53% of revenue, the chemicals, reagents, silicones and formulated products the company makes in its own plants, read at the chemicals group by description (c). |
| Facilities Support Services | 15% | The filing counts a services organization of approximately 2,000 associates who work side by side with customers at their sites (a), the onsite laboratory and inventory services, read at facilities support services. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 4,800 in the U.S.; about 2,000 in the services organization at customer sites; about 5% of North American employees union-represented and a majority in Europe under works councils or unions; over 30 countries.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Medline Inc. (MDLN, 45,000 employees)24% now, 45% by 2028
- Henry Schein, Inc. (HSIC, 25,000 employees)27% now, 51% by 2028
- TD Synnex Corp (SNX, 24,000 employees)28% now, 51% by 2028
- Ingram Micro Holding Corporation (INGM, 22,200 employees)28% now, 51% by 2028
- CDW Corporation (CDW, 14,800 employees)28% now, 53% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
6 sentences in the filing name AI. Six sentences: the company's websites use search analytics and AI-based recommendations, and a risk factor says the adoption of AI and machine learning may expose its systems to cyberattacks; AI also appears in the glossary.
- “Form 10-K summary 55 i Glossary Description the Company, we, us, our Avantor, Inc. and its subsidiaries 2019 Plan the Avantor, Inc. 2019 Equity Incentive Plan, a stock-based compensation plan Adjusted EBITDA our earnings or loss before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and certain other adjustments Adjusted Operating Income our earnings or loss before interest, taxes, amortization and...”
- “Our websites utilize search analytics and feature personalized search tools, customer specific web solutions and enhanced data that optimize our customers' online purchasing experience with rich content and AI-based recommendations and better integrate our customers' processes with our own.”
- “New technology that could result in greater operational efficiency, such as the development and adoption of AI and machine learning technology, may further expose our systems and businesses to the risk of cyberattacks.”
- “For example, we and many of the third-party service providers we rely on use generative AI, which increases the risk that our confidential or proprietary information or personal data could be inadvertently or maliciously exposed.”
- “We have been and expect to continue to utilize AI and machine learning in certain of our products and services.”
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 20232median 1
- Fiscal 20247median 4
- Fiscal 20256median 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.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 13,500 | 2026-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 13,500 | 2025-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 14,500 | 2024-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 14,500 | 2023-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 13,500 | 2022-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 12,400 | 2021-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 12,000 | 2020-02-14 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by business except the services organization: the split between distribution and manufacturing is by description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-007118, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Avantor, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 23% now and 41% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Avantor, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Avantor, Inc. employ?
- 13,500 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 36% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Avantor, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers; by those patterns the work is about 43% desk work, 19% people work and 38% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Avantor, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 6 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 2, 7 and 6 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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