Valhi, Inc. (VHI)
Pigments, security products and real estate, counted. Read November 11, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 10, 2026. Ranked 21 of the 84 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
30%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
37%
Employees, annual report
2,826
Leading staffing pattern
Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only)
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.
- Now30%
- End of 202736%
- End of 202837%
- End of 203038%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 62%
- Becomes checking a model's work 33%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
A holding company whose filing counts each segment's employees, so every share is a stated count.
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, 36% at the end of 2027, 37% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% 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 62% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 33% 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
2,826 employees as of December 31, 2025 (sum of stated parts). 311 of the Chemicals Segment's 2,263 are in the United States, as are all 549 in Component Products and all 14 in real estate: 874 of 2,826.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, our Component Products Segment and our Real Estate Management and Development Segment employed 549 people and 14 people, respectively, all in the United States.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only) | 80% | Counted (a): the Chemicals Segment, Kronos, employs 2,263 of the 2,826, making titanium dioxide pigments. |
| Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 only) | 19% | Counted (a): the Component Products Segment, CompX, employs 549 of the 2,826, making security products and marine components. |
| Real Estate | 1% | Counted (a): the filing states 14 employees in the Real Estate Management and Development Segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Chemicals Segment 2,263 (Europe 1,650, Canada 302, United States 311), about 10.5% fewer than in 2024; Component Products 549; real estate 14. About 76% of Kronos' worldwide workforce is under collective bargaining agreements.
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
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2,263 | 2026-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 2,524 | 2025-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 576 | 2024-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 633 | 2023-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 599 | 2022-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 542 | 2021-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 2,200 | 2020-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 2,195 | 2019-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | not read | 2018-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 2,260 | 2017-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 2,280 | 2016-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 2,485 | 2015-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 2,450 | 2014-03-17 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,555 | 2013-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,470 | 2012-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 2,440 | 2011-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 2,440 | 2010-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 2,450 | 2009-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 2,400 | 2008-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 2,450 | 2007-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 2,415 | 2006-03-24 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 2,420 | 2005-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 2,450 | 2004-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 1,850 | 2003-03-18 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 2,000 | 2002-03-26 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 2,270 | 2001-03-22 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 2,500 | 2000-03-27 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 2,500 | 1999-03-26 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 2,600 | 1998-03-20 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 3,100 | 1997-03-21 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 3,200 | 1996-03-19 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | 3,100 | 1995-03-20 | 10-K |
| 1993-12-31 | 2,200 | 1994-03-11 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The total is the sum of three segment counts the filing states; the collector and the data service had the Chemicals Segment alone.
- 2,263 of the 2,826 are employees of Kronos Worldwide, a majority-owned subsidiary that files its own annual report and is also read in the Index (KRO).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001104659-26-025847, 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 Valhi, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 30% now and 37% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Valhi, 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 Valhi, Inc. employ?
- 2,826 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states as the sum of the parts it gives. About 31% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Valhi, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only); by those patterns the work is about 38% desk work, 13% people work and 49% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Valhi, Inc.'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 5.2 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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