Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. (SOLS)

Specialty materials maker spun from Honeywell. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 19 of the 84 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Solstice Advanced Materials states about 4,100 employees at 20 manufacturing sites and four R&D sites making refrigerants, electronic materials and specialty fibers, read whole at the chemical manufacturing group; its first annual report after the separation.

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

4,100 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; nearly all European employees and 16% of U.S. employees are in a union or works council; the data service shows 71% of revenue in the United States and 29% in EMEA.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 4,100 employees, over 300 of whom are technologists and engineers in our R&D operations.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,100 employees, over 300 technologists and engineers in R&D; 20 manufacturing sites and four standalone R&D sites; nearly all European employees and about 16% of U.S. employees in a union or works council; the first annual report after the October 2025 separation from Honeywell.

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

4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says its Electronic Materials business is positioned to benefit from AI-related demand for advanced chips and from semiconductor investment driven by AI, and names AI-crafted cyber threats as a risk, in four sentences.

• “The Electronic Materials business is well-positioned to benefit from artificial intelligence ("AI") related tailwinds and the increasing demand for advanced, lower-nanometer chips.”
• “Currently, we benefit from increases in semiconductor investments, driven by the rapid advancement of AI.”
• “The evolving nature and increasing frequency of cyber threats, including the use of AI to craft sophisticated attacks, poses additional challenges in anticipating and preventing such incidents.”
• “In addition, as we increase our use of AI tools in our operations, the risk of unauthorized access to our data and of making errors or erroneous decisions based on our reliance on such tools may increase.”

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

• The data service's segment table shows product and service revenue, not segments, and its SIC code names computer processing; the reading rests on the filing's description of a specialty materials maker.
• No count by country is stated; the U.S. share is left null.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0002064953-26-000008, 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.