DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (DD)
Specialty materials after the electronics separation. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 18 of the 43 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
19%
End of 2028
35%
Employees, annual report
15,000
Leading staffing pattern
Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now19%
- End of 202730%
- End of 202835%
- End of 203037%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 63%
- Becomes checking a model's work 31%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
The filing states 15,000 employees after the electronics business's separation, 1,700 in aramid fibers, making specialty chemicals, water filtration and plastics products, 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: 19% now, 30% at the end of 2027, 35% at the end of 2028, 37% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 37% desk work, 13% people work and 50% 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 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
15,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated alone; about 50% of employees are in the U.S. and Canada, 24% in EMEA, 18% in Asia Pacific and 8% in Latin America.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the Company employed approximately 15,000 people worldwide, approximately 1,700 of which are dedicated to the Aramids Business.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only) | 70% | The filing counts 1,700 employees in the Aramids Business (a), the Kevlar and Nomex fibers, and the remaining specialty polymers, resins and silicones of its healthcare, water and industrial businesses are chemical manufacturing by description (c), so the chemicals group leads. |
| Machinery Manufacturing (3331, 3332, 3334, and 3339 only) | 15% | The water business makes reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration and ion exchange elements and filtration equipment, which NAICS counts with other commercial and general purpose equipment, read at the machinery group by description (c). |
| Plastics Product Manufacturing | 15% | Tyvek nonwovens, Corian surfaces and the molded medical components of the healthcare business are plastics products by description (c); the filing counts no employees by business after the electronics separation. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,000 U.S. employees in non-exempt or hourly positions (27% of the total); 1,700 dedicated to the Aramids Business; 50% in the U.S. and Canada; the headcount fell from 24,000 with the electronics business's separation in 2025.
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
- Eastman Chemical Company (EMN, 13,000 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
- Celanese Corporation (CE, 11,434 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. One sentence: the company's margin growth depends in part on a streamlined operating model that leverages technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, with facility consolidation and moves to cost-competitive regions.
- “The Company's profitability and margin growth will depend in part on the Company's ability to maintain a streamlined operating model and drive sustainable improvements, through among other actions, leveraging technology, as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning ("AI") and consolidation of manufacturing facilities, transitions to cost-competitive regions and product line rationali...”
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 20243median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 15,000 | 2026-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 24,000 | 2025-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 24,000 | 2024-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 23,000 | 2023-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 28,000 | 2022-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 11,000 | 2021-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 35,000 | 2020-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 98,000 | 2019-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 98,000 | 2018-02-15 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by business except the Aramids 1,700: the split is by description (c).
- The data service's segment table is for fiscal 2024, before the electronics business separated, and was not used.
- The U.S. share is not stated alone.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001666700-26-000013, 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 DuPont de Nemours, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 19% now and 35% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce DuPont de Nemours, 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 DuPont de Nemours, Inc. employ?
- 15,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up DuPont de Nemours, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only); by those patterns the work is about 37% desk work, 13% people work and 50% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does DuPont de Nemours, Inc.'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, 3 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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