Huntsman Corporation (HUN)
Specialty chemicals maker, 33% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 18, 2026. Ranked 14 of the 52 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
20%
End of 2028
37%
Employees, annual report
6,000
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
- Now20%
- End of 202732%
- End of 202837%
- End of 203039%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 61%
- Becomes checking a model's work 33%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
Huntsman’s approximately 6,000 associates, 2,000 in the U.S., make polyurethanes, performance products and advanced materials, read as one chemical manufacturing pattern.
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: 20% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 37% 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), 33% 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
6,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Approximately 2,000 of 6,000 associates are in the U.S. and 4,000 in other countries, by the filing.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 6,000 associates in our operations around the world. Approximately 2,000 of these employees are located in the U.S., while approximately 4,000 are located in other countries.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only) | 100% | By description (c): polyurethanes, performance products and advanced materials made in plants and technology centers worldwide, basic chemicals and resins, the chemical group; no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 6,000 associates, 2,000 in the U.S.; technology centers in Basel, The Woodlands, Merrimack and Shanghai; the series fell from 9,000 in 2021 with divestitures; no union count stated.
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
- DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (DD, 15,000 employees)19% now, 35% by 2028
- Eastman Chemical Company (EMN, 13,000 employees)20% now, 37% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
5 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI five times: AI tools in its information systems, and AI among competitive and cybersecurity risks.
- “Finally, we may face increased competition due to the rapid development of digital, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.”
- “We rely on information technology systems, including tools that utilize artificial intelligence, across our operations, including for management, supply chain and financial information and various other processes and transactions.”
- “In addition, the rapid evolution and increased adoption of artificial intelligence technologies may intensify our cybersecurity risks as attackers increase their utilization of artificial intelligence tools.”
- “Many of the tools and resources we integrate, or will integrate, into our business use some form of artificial intelligence, which has the potential to result in bias and other unintended consequences.”
- “Additionally, our use of artificial intelligence software may create additional risks related to the potential for intellectual property infringement or the unintentional disclosure of intellectual property and proprietary, confidential, personal or otherwise sensitive information.”
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 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20255median 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 | 6,000 | 2026-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 6,300 | 2025-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 6,000 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 7,000 | 2023-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 9,000 | 2022-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 9,000 | 2021-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 10,000 | 2020-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 10,000 | 2019-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 10,000 | 2018-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 15,000 | 2017-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 15,000 | 2016-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 16,000 | 2015-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 12,000 | 2014-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 12,000 | 2013-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 12,000 | 2012-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 12,000 | 2011-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 11,000 | 2010-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 12,600 | 2009-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 12,900 | 2008-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 4,000 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 10,800 | 2006-03-17 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 11,300 | 2005-03-15 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment; one chemical pattern by description.
- The headcount series falls from 9,000 in 2021 to 6,000 as businesses were sold; the years are not like for like.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001437749-26-004524, 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 Huntsman Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 20% now and 37% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Huntsman Corporation'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 Huntsman Corporation employ?
- 6,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 33% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Huntsman Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only); by those patterns the work is about 39% desk work, 13% people work and 49% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Huntsman Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 5 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 1 and 5 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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