Quanex Building Products Corporation (NX)
Window, door and cabinet components maker, 7,071. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending October 31, 2025, filed December 12, 2025. Ranked 27 of the 43 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
18%
End of 2028
28%
Employees, annual report
7,071
Leading staffing pattern
Plastics Product Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now18%
- End of 202726%
- End of 202828%
- End of 203029%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 70%
- Becomes checking a model's work 24%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
A building components maker whose filing states 7,071 full-time employees and nothing by segment, so vinyl and plastics components lead by description with hardware and cabinet components beside them.
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: 18% now, 26% at the end of 2027, 28% at the end of 2028, 29% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 29% desk work, 12% people work and 58% 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), 24% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
7,071 employees as of October 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated: the filing counts no employees by country; the data service's 73% United States is revenue from before the Tyman acquisition.
The filing: “As of October 31, 2025, we had 7,071 full-time employees located throughout our global organization.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Plastics Product Manufacturing | 50% | By description (c): the engineered components segments extrude vinyl window profiles and make insulating glass spacers and screens, plastics products (NAICS 3261), with no count by segment, so half is read there. |
| Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 only) | 30% | By description (c): the window and door hardware added with the Tyman acquisition is builders' hardware (NAICS 332510), with no count by segment, so three tenths are read at the fabricated metal group. |
| Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing (3371 and 3372 only) | 20% | By segment revenue (c): the cabinet components segment, 18% of pre-acquisition revenue, makes wood kitchen cabinet doors and components (NAICS 337110), with no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 7,071 full-time employees as of October 31, 2025 (7,068 a year earlier, 3,792 before the Tyman acquisition); the count does not fluctuate significantly through the year; turnover monitored monthly by division and plant.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Plastics Product 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.
- Amcor plc (AMCR, 75,000 employees)17% now, 26% by 2028
- Westlake Corporation (WLK, 14,600 employees)19% now, 33% by 2028
- AptarGroup, Inc. (ATR, 14,000 employees)17% now, 26% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. No sentence in the filing names AI.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 7,071 | 2025-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-10-31 | 7,068 | 2024-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2023-10-31 | 3,792 | 2023-12-15 | 10-K |
| 2022-10-31 | 3,875 | 2022-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2021-10-31 | 3,860 | 2021-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-10-31 | 3,767 | 2020-12-11 | 10-K |
| 2019-10-31 | 3,632 | 2019-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2018-10-31 | 3,818 | 2018-12-11 | 10-K |
| 2017-10-31 | 3,954 | 2017-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2016-10-31 | 4,138 | 2016-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2015-10-31 | 2,693 | 2015-12-15 | 10-K |
| 2014-10-31 | 2,206 | 2014-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2013-10-31 | 2,565 | 2013-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2012-10-31 | 2,228 | 2012-12-31 | 10-K |
| 2011-10-31 | 2,340 | 2011-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2010-10-31 | 2,109 | 2010-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2009-10-31 | 1,964 | 2009-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2008-10-31 | 2,262 | 2008-12-18 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is not stated.
- The count is of full-time employees as the filing states it.
- No count by segment: the split among plastics components, hardware and cabinet components is by description (c); the data service's segment table predates the Tyman acquisition.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001423221-25-000100, 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 Quanex Building Products Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 18% now and 28% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Quanex Building Products 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 Quanex Building Products Corporation employ?
- 7,071 as of October 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending October 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Quanex Building Products Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Plastics Product Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 29% desk work, 12% people work and 58% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Quanex Building Products Corporation'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 5.1 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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