Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (KALU)

Aluminum rolling and extrusion mills, corporate counted. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 57 of the 84 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Kaiser Aluminum states 3,840 employees, 3,760 at its manufacturing, sales and support locations read at aluminum production and processing and 80 corporate read at management of companies, a majority union.

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: 23% now, 27% at the end of 2027, 28% 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 70% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 25% 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

3,840 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; its rolling mills and extrusion plants are in the United States with one in Canada, and 96% of revenue is in the United States by the data service.

The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we employed 3,840 people, of which approximately 3,760 were employed in our manufacturing, sales, and support office locations and approximately 80 were employed in a corporate capacity.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 3,840 employees, 3,760 at manufacturing, sales and support office locations and 80 corporate; a majority are union members, with no share stated; safety overseen by the Executive Vice President of Manufacturing in partnership with the USW.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Alumina and Aluminum Production and Processing, 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.

• Alcoa Corporation (AA, 14,900 employees)22% now, 26% by 2028
• Constellium SE (CSTM, 11,500 employees)23% now, 27% by 2028
• Century Aluminum Company (CENX, 2,906 employees)22% now, 27% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in four sentences: among the sustainability considerations stakeholders focus on and among the methods making cyberattacks more sophisticated.

• “These factors include: (i) the effectiveness of management's strategies and decisions, including strategic investments, capital spending strategies, cost reduction initiatives, sourcing strategies, processes and countermeasures implemented to address operational and supply chain challenges and the execution of those strategies; (ii) the execution and timing of strategic investments; (iii) gener...”
• “Many governments, regulators, investors, employees, customers, and other stakeholders continue to focus on sustainability considerations relating to businesses, including climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, data privacy, artificial intelligence, human capital and diversity and inclusion.”
• “Cyberattack and security breach strategies and methods continue to evolve and become more sophisticated, including thorough increasing utilization of artificial intelligence technologies.”
• “These risks include but are not limited to: the ability to attract and retain key management and other personnel and develop effective succession plans; skills shortages in engineering, manufacturing, technology, construction and maintenance contractors and other labor market inadequacies; regulations that subject us to additional capital or margin requirements or other restrictions that make i...”

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 20254median 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

• No count by country is stated; the U.S. share is left null.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-059575, 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.