Commercial Metals Company (CMC)
Steel minimills with rebar fabrication and recycling. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending August 31, 2025, filed October 16, 2025. Ranked 28 of the 43 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
28%
Employees, annual report
12,690
Leading staffing pattern
Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202725%
- End of 202828%
- End of 203029%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 69%
- Becomes checking a model's work 25%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
The filing's table counts 12,690 employees by segment, 8,171 in North American steel and 1,421 in emerging businesses, at minimills, fabrication plants and recycling yards.
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: 17% now, 25% at the end of 2027, 28% at the end of 2028, 29% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 29% desk work, 12% people work and 59% 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 69% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 25% 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
12,690 employees as of August 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; U.S. revenue is 81% and Poland 7%, and the Europe Steel Group's count sits in the rows the excerpt cuts.
The filing: “The following table presents the approximate headcount of employees within each reportable segment and Corporate and Other as of August 31, 2025: North America Steel Group 8,171, Emerging Businesses Group 1,421, Europe Steel Group and Corporate and Other the remainder of 12,690.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing | 55% | The North America Steel Group's 8,171 employees (a) run electric arc furnace minimills with their recycling yards and fabrication plants, and the Europe Steel Group runs the Polish mill; the mills themselves are read at iron and steel mills by description (c) as the largest part. |
| Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3323 and 3324 only) | 25% | Downstream products (28% of revenue), the rebar fabrication plants that cut and bend steel for construction, are read at fabricated structural metal (3323, in 3320A2) by description (c). |
| Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only) | 10% | Raw material products (19% of revenue), the scrap recycling yards that feed the mills, are read at recyclable material wholesalers (4239, in 4230A1) by description (c), as Steel Dynamics' yards were. |
| Plastics Product Manufacturing | 10% | The Emerging Businesses Group's 1,421 employees (a) make geogrids, ground stabilization and construction products, read at plastics product manufacturing. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 8,171 in the North America Steel Group, 1,421 in the Emerging Businesses Group, with the Europe Steel Group and Corporate and Other rows cut from the excerpt; the collector's sentence was weak; no hourly, part-time or union figure stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Nucor Corporation (NUE, 33,000 employees)16% now, 27% by 2028
- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (CLF, 25,000 employees)16% now, 26% by 2028
- Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD, 14,400 employees)19% now, 30% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. One sentence says the rapid expansion of data centers for cloud services and artificial intelligence is expected to raise electric power consumption, which could affect energy availability and pricing for steel producers.
- “Additionally, the rapid expansion of data centers driven by growing demand for cloud services, artificial intelligence and other digital infrastructure is expected to significantly increase electric power consumption, which could impact energy availability and pricing for industrial users, including steel producers.”
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 20251median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-31 | 12,690 | 2025-10-16 | 10-K |
| 2024-08-31 | 13,178 | 2024-10-17 | 10-K |
| 2023-08-31 | 13,022 | 2023-10-12 | 10-K |
| 2022-08-31 | 12,483 | 2022-10-13 | 10-K |
| 2021-08-31 | 11,089 | 2021-10-14 | 10-K |
| 2020-08-31 | 11,297 | 2020-10-15 | 10-K |
| 2019-08-31 | 11,524 | 2019-10-23 | 10-K |
| 2018-08-31 | 8,900 | 2018-10-25 | 10-K |
| 2017-08-31 | 8,797 | 2017-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2016-08-31 | 8,388 | 2016-10-31 | 10-K |
| 2015-08-31 | 9,126 | 2015-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2014-08-31 | 9,293 | 2014-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2013-08-31 | 9,411 | 2013-10-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-08-31 | 9,860 | 2012-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2011-08-31 | 11,422 | 2011-10-31 | 10-K |
| 2010-08-31 | 11,558 | 2010-10-29 | 10-K |
| 2009-08-31 | 13,586 | 2009-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2008-08-31 | 15,276 | 2008-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2007-08-31 | 12,730 | 2007-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2006-08-31 | 11,734 | 2006-11-08 | 10-K |
| 2005-08-31 | 11,027 | 2005-11-09 | 10-K |
| 2004-08-31 | 10,604 | 2004-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2003-08-31 | 7,873 | 2003-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2002-08-31 | 7,728 | 2002-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2001-08-31 | 7,998 | 2001-11-21 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-08-31 | 8,378 | 2000-11-21 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-08-31 | 7,581 | 1999-11-24 | 10-K |
| 1998-08-31 | 7,350 | 1998-11-24 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-08-31 | 7,150 | 1997-11-25 | 10-K |
| 1996-08-31 | 6,700 | 1996-11-27 | 10-K |
| 1995-08-31 | 6,400 | 1995-11-27 | 10-K |
| 1994-08-31 | 4,353 | 1994-11-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The segment table is cut in the excerpt after the first two rows; the total matches the collector's 12,690 and the remainder is the Europe Steel Group and corporate.
- No count by kind of plant inside the steel groups: the split between mills, fabrication and recycling is by description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000022444-25-000138, 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 Commercial Metals Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 28% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Commercial Metals Company'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 Commercial Metals Company employ?
- 12,690 as of August 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending August 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Commercial Metals Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 4 industry staffing patterns, the largest Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 29% desk work, 12% people work and 59% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Commercial Metals Company's annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 1 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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