Cabot Corp. (CBT)

Carbon black and specialty chemicals maker, 24% U.S. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 24, 2025. Ranked 8 of the 84 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Cabot states 4,064 employees, 40% in the Americas with 60% of those in the United States, making carbon black and performance chemicals at plants worldwide, read whole at the chemical manufacturing group.

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: 30% now, 37% at the end of 2027, 38% at the end of 2028, 39% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 39% desk work, 13% people work and 49% 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 61% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 34% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

4,064 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). 40% of employees are in the Americas and 60% of those in the United States, so 24% in the U.S., derived from the filing's stated shares; 33% in Asia Pacific (75% in China) and 27% in EMEA.

The filing: “As of September 30, 2025, we had 4,064 employees.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 4,064 employees at the fiscal year end (the human capital section also says approximately 4,100); 40% in the Americas, 33% in Asia Pacific, 27% in EMEA; some U.S. and foreign employees covered by collective bargaining or similar agreements, no share stated; global voluntary turnover 6.0%; 25% women.

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. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Linde plc (LIN, 65,177 employees)32% now, 41% by 2028
• Ecolab Inc. (ECL, 48,000 employees)29% now, 35% by 2028
• Dow Inc. (DOW, 34,600 employees)30% now, 38% by 2028
• Corteva, Inc. (CTVA, 21,500 employees)21% now, 26% by 2028
• Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APD, 21,300 employees)30% now, 38% by 2028
• LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (LYB, 18,970 employees)30% now, 38% by 2028
• DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (DD, 15,000 employees)29% now, 36% by 2028
• Eastman Chemical Company (EMN, 13,000 employees)30% now, 38% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

7 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's AI sentences are risk factors: as it increases its use of AI tools in operations, the risks of unauthorized data access and of erroneous decisions based on an AI tool increase, and it is exposed to risks from the use of AI tools by others, in seven sentences.

• “Additionally, as we increase our use of artificial intelligence tools into our operations, the risk of unauthorized access to our data and of making errors or erroneous decisions based on our reliance on the AI tool will increase.”
• “Breaches of our security measures, cyber incidents and disruptions, use of AI tools, the theft or accidental loss, inadvertent disclosure, or unapproved dissemination of proprietary information or sensitive or confidential information about the Company, our employees, our vendors, or our customers, or failure to comply with laws and regulations related to information security or privacy, could...”
• “We are exposed to risks related to the use of artificial intelligence tools by us and others.”
• “Our use of artificial intelligence tools may subject us to significant competitive, legal, regulatory and other risks and there can be no assurance that our use of artificial intelligence tools will enhance our business operations or result in a benefit to us.”
• “Our competitors may be more successful in their use of artificial intelligence tools, including by developing superior products or product applications or improving their operations with the assistance of artificial intelligence.”

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 20241median 4
• Fiscal 20257median 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 headcount is the exact 4,064 in the Our Employees section over the rounded approximately 4,100 the collector took (rule 2).
• The U.S. share is derived from the filing's stated regional shares, not a stated count.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-25-292412, 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.