Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. (RYAM)
Cellulose specialties and paperboard mills. Read November 11, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 5, 2026. Ranked 71 of the 84 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
21%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
26%
Employees, annual report
2,325
Leading staffing pattern
Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills
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.
- Now21%
- End of 202725%
- End of 202826%
- End of 203026%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 73%
- Becomes checking a model's work 23%
- Handed over with lighter checks 3%
A pulp and paperboard producer with one kind of work; the filing states one total and the union share.
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: 21% now, 25% at the end of 2027, 26% at the end of 2028, 26% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 26% desk work, 9% people work and 64% 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 73% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 23% becomes checking a model's work and 3% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
2,325 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; employees are in the U.S., Canada and France.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the Company employed approximately 2,325 people in the U.S., Canada and France, of which 68 percent were unionized.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills | 100% | By description (c): production facilities making cellulose specialties, a dissolving pulp, and paperboard, both inside the pulp, paper and paperboard mills group; no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 68 percent belong to labor unions; all manufacturing sites are represented. Production facilities in the U.S., Canada and France, with sales offices in six countries.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills, 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.
- Sylvamo Corp (SLVM, 6,500 employees)21% now, 26% by 2028
- Mativ Holdings, Inc. (MATV, 5,000 employees)21% now, 25% by 2028
- Mercer International Inc. (MERC, 3,545 employees)20% now, 23% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
13 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names failure to integrate AI and similar technologies into its business processes as a competitive risk and says AI, machine learning and automation are transforming many industries.
- “Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules 49 Signatures 54 i Table of Contents Glossary The following terms and abbreviations appearing in the text of this 2025 Form 10-K have the meanings indicated below. 2023 Plan RYAM 2023 Incentive Stock Plan, as amended and restated 2024 Notes $550 million original aggregate principal amount of 5.50 percent senior unsecured notes issued May 2014, due June...”
- “Failure to integrate AI and similar advanced technologies into our business processes may materially adversely affect our competitive position and results of operations.”
- “Rapid advancements in AI, machine learning, automation and data analytics technologies are transforming many industries and may significantly alter competitive dynamics.”
- “Our competitors may adopt AI-driven tools and technologies more quickly, more effectively or at a lower cost than we do.”
- “The use of AI may enable competitors to enhance product development, improve manufacturing efficiency, optimize supply chains, better predict customer demand, reduce operating costs, accelerate innovation cycles, improve pricing strategies or deliver more customized products and services.”
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 20232median 1
- Fiscal 20243median 4
- Fiscal 202513median 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 | 2,325 | 2026-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 2,350 | 2025-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 2,800 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 2,500 | 2023-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 2,500 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4,000 | 2021-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 4,000 | 2020-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,200 | 2019-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 4,200 | 2018-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 1,200 | 2017-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 1,200 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 1,300 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment or function; one pattern by description.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001597672-26-000010, 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 Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 21% now and 26% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Rayonier Advanced Materials 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 Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. employ?
- 2,325 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills; by those patterns the work is about 26% desk work, 9% people work and 64% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 13 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 2, 3 and 13 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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