Sensient Technologies Corporation (SXT)

Colors and flavors maker, administration counted. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 13, 2026. Ranked 28 of the 84 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Sensient states 4,070 employees by function, 2,492 in production, 45% in the United States; its colors and personal care ingredients are read at chemicals and its flavors at other food manufacturing by segment revenue, with the 522 general administration employees at management of companies.

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: 29% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 37% at the end of 2028, 37% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 37% 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 62% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 32% 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

4,070 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Approximately 45% of employees were employed in the United States and 55% outside it.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the Company employed 4,070 persons worldwide.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 522 general administration, 2,492 production, 496 research and development and 560 sales and marketing employees of 4,070; 45% in the United States; no hourly, part-time or union counts; Flavorist and Sales Representative trainee programs.

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's four AI sentences are risk factors: customers' needs may change with new technologies such as AI and machine learning, AI developments bear on protecting its intellectual property, and AI may make cyber threats harder to prevent.

• “In addition, if we cannot adequately anticipate and respond to the needs of our customers as they evolve in response to changing consumer preferences, new technologies (including advancements such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, which may become critical in understanding consumer preferences in the future), and price demands, our results could be adversely affected.”
• “Our failure to obtain or adequately protect our intellectual property rights (including in response to developments in artificial intelligence technologies), or any change in law or other changes that serve to lessen or remove the current legal protections of our intellectual property, may diminish our competitiveness and could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition...”
• “In addition, as artificial intelligence capabilities and other new and evolving technologies improve and gain widespread use, the cybersecurity threats we face and incidents we experience from time to time may become even more challenging to prevent, detect, and mitigate to the extent they increasingly use artificial intelligence or other new and evolving technologies.”
• “It is also possible for a threat to be introduced as a result of our customers and third-party providers using the output of an artificial intelligence tool or other new and evolving technologies that unwittingly incorporate a threat, such as introducing malicious code by incorporating artificial intelligence-generated source code.”

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 20211median 0
• Fiscal 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20235median 1
• Fiscal 20244median 4
• Fiscal 20254median 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

• The function counts are stated but not by segment, so the colors and flavors shares follow segment revenue (c) within the operating count.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001140361-26-005311, 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.