Stepan Co (SCL)

Surfactants and polymers maker. Read November 11, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 22 of the 84 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A specialty chemical maker whose filing states one total; the two patterns follow its segment sales.

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, 35% at the end of 2027, 36% at the end of 2028, 36% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 36% desk work, 13% people work and 50% 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 63% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 31% 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

2,328 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated.

The filing: “On December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company employed 2,328 and 2,396 persons, respectively.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 2,328 persons at the end of 2025 against 2,396 a year earlier. The excerpt carries no workforce description beyond the count.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Chemical Manufacturing (3255 and 3256 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.

• PPG Industries, Inc. (PPG, 43,500 employees)29% now, 35% by 2028
• Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL, 33,600 employees)28% now, 33% by 2028
• Kenvue Inc. (KVUE, 22,000 employees)30% now, 39% by 2028
• RPM International Inc. (RPM, 17,546 employees)28% now, 33% by 2028
• Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (AXTA, 12,300 employees)29% now, 35% by 2028
• Coty Inc. (COTY, 11,335 employees)29% now, 35% by 2028
• The Clorox Company (CLX, 9,200 employees)27% now, 33% by 2028
• H.B. Fuller Company (FUL, 7,100 employees)29% now, 35% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's one sentence naming artificial intelligence says the risk of cybersecurity attacks will rise as AI is used to find vulnerabilities.

• “We anticipate that the risk of cybersecurity attacks will increase as artificial intelligence is increasingly used to identify vulnerabilities and conduct increasingly sophisticated attacks.”

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 20251median 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 segment; the split between the two chemical groups follows segment sales.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-074976, 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.