Kronos Worldwide, Inc. (KRO)
Titanium dioxide pigment plants, mostly in Europe. Read November 11, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 9, 2026. Ranked 16 of the 84 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
30%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
38%
Employees, annual report
2,263
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
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now30%
- End of 202737%
- End of 202838%
- 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 34%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
A pigment producer with one business; the filing counts its people by region.
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: 30% now, 37% at the end of 2027, 38% 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), 34% 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
2,263 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). 311 of 2,263 are in the United States, 1,650 in Europe and 302 in Canada.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed the following number of people (an approximate 10.5% decrease from 2024): Europe 1,650, Canada 302, United States 311, Total 2,263.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only) | 100% | By description (c): a producer of titanium dioxide pigments at plants in Europe, Canada and the United States, an inorganic basic chemical; no count by function. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 76% of the worldwide workforce is organized under collective bargaining agreements. The total is about 10.5% lower than in 2024, as the filing states.
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. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Linde plc (LIN, 65,177 employees)32% now, 41% by 2028
- Ecolab Inc. (ECL, 48,000 employees)29% now, 35% by 2028
- Dow Inc. (DOW, 34,600 employees)30% now, 38% by 2028
- Corteva, Inc. (CTVA, 21,500 employees)21% now, 26% by 2028
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APD, 21,300 employees)30% now, 38% by 2028
- LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (LYB, 18,970 employees)30% now, 38% by 2028
- DuPont de Nemours, Inc. (DD, 15,000 employees)29% now, 36% by 2028
- Eastman Chemical Company (EMN, 13,000 employees)30% now, 38% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
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
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 | 2,263 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 2,524 | 2025-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 2,196 | 2024-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 2,266 | 2023-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 2,248 | 2022-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 2,242 | 2021-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 2,200 | 2020-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 2,195 | 2019-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 2,245 | 2018-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 2,260 | 2017-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 2,280 | 2016-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 2,485 | 2015-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 2,450 | 2014-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,555 | 2013-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,470 | 2012-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 2,440 | 2011-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,440 | 2010-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 2,450 | 2009-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 2,400 | 2008-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 2,450 | 2007-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 2,415 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 2,420 | 2005-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 2,450 | 2004-03-09 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by function; one pattern by description.
- The total comes from the filing's table by region.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001104659-26-025219, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.2 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 Kronos Worldwide, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 30% now and 38% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Kronos Worldwide, 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 Kronos Worldwide, Inc. employ?
- 2,263 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 14% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Kronos Worldwide, Inc.'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 Kronos Worldwide, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 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 5.2 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 11, 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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