Carpenter Technology Corporation (CRS)

Specialty alloy maker, 4,500, 615 union production employees. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026, filed August 12, 2026. Ranked 47 of the 62 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 4,500 employees, 615 of them union production workers, making specialty steels and nonferrous alloys with nothing counted by segment, 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: 16% now, 24% at the end of 2027, 27% at the end of 2028, 28% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 28% desk work, 10% people work and 63% 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 68% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 26% 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

4,500 employees as of June 30, 2026 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; its long-lived assets outside the United States are $4.1 million, so nearly all operations are domestic, and sales outside the United States are 42%.

The filing: “As of June 30, 2026, our total workforce consisted of approximately 4,500 employees.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,500 employees; 450 production employees in Latrobe and 165 in Washington, Pennsylvania, under collective bargaining agreements expiring 2027 and 2029; hybrid and remote arrangements for some roles.

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
• Commercial Metals Company (CMC, 12,690 employees)17% now, 28% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI among new technologies whose misuse may disclose data or produce inaccurate results, in its risk factors.

• “Such breaches may also harm our reputation, result in financial losses or subject us to litigation or other costs or penalties. 11 Table of Contents The use of new and evolving technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence ("AI"), presents risks and challenges that can impact our business.”
• “Unauthorized use or misuse of AI by the Company's employees, vendors or others may result in the disclosure of confidential Company or customer data, reputational harm, privacy law violations, cybersecurity risks, and legal liability.”
• “Additionally, while the use of AI can be beneficial to the Company, AI algorithms are currently known to sometimes produce unexpected results or behave in unpredictable ways that can generate, among other things, irrelevant, nonsensical, inaccurate, harmful, discriminatory or infringing results, which could harm the Company's business, reputation, or result in legal or regulatory actions.”
• “They include but are not limited to: (1) the cyclical nature of the specialty materials business and certain end-use markets, including aerospace, defense, medical, energy, transportation, industrial and consumer, or other influences on Carpenter Technology's business such as new competitors, the consolidation of competitors, customers, and suppliers or the transfer of manufacturing capacity fr...”

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 20250median 10
• Fiscal 20264

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

• No count by segment; the split between steel and nonferrous alloys is by description.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000017843-26-000034, 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.