Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (WMS)
Plastic pipe and water products maker, 90% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending March 31, 2026, filed May 21, 2026. Ranked 36 of the 52 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
26%
Employees, annual report
6,425
Leading staffing pattern
Plastics Product Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202724%
- End of 202826%
- End of 203027%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 73%
- Becomes checking a model's work 21%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
Advanced Drainage Systems’ 6,425 employees, 5,785 in the United States and 4,035 hourly, make thermoplastic pipe and water management products, read as one plastics products pattern.
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: 17% now, 24% at the end of 2027, 26% at the end of 2028, 27% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 27% desk work, 12% people work and 61% 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), 21% 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
6,425 employees as of March 31, 2026 (stated). 5,785 of 6,425 employees are in the United States, 365 in Canada and 275 elsewhere, by the filing’s table.
The filing: “Employees by region as of March 31, 2026: United States 5,785, Canada 365, Other 275, total 6,425; by type: hourly 4,035, salary 2,390.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Plastics Product Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): thermoplastic corrugated pipe, chambers and water management products made in its plants and delivered by its own fleet, one plastics products pattern; no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 6,425 employees as of March 31, 2026: 5,785 U.S., 365 Canada, 275 other; 4,035 hourly and 2,390 salaried; about 100 hourly personnel in the Mexican joint venture covered by collective bargaining agreements.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Plastics Product Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Amcor plc (AMCR, 75,000 employees)17% now, 26% by 2028
- Westlake Corporation (WLK, 14,600 employees)19% now, 33% by 2028
- AptarGroup, Inc. (ATR, 14,000 employees)17% now, 26% by 2028
- Quanex Building Products Corporation (NX, 7,071 employees)18% now, 28% by 2028
- Reynolds Consumer Products Inc. (REYN, 6,000 employees)16% now, 26% by 2028
- Carlisle Companies Incorporated (CSL, 5,900 employees)17% now, 28% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI twice, among cybersecurity risks.
- “Legal Proceedings" of this Annual Report; the effect of weather or seasonality; the loss of any of our significant customers; the risks of doing business internationally; the risks of conducting a portion of our operations through joint ventures; our ability to expand into new geographic or product markets; the risk associated with manufacturing processes; the effects of global climate change a...”
- “New developments in the fields of generative artificial intelligence ("AI"), machine learning, and robotics may create new vulnerabilities and cybersecurity risks.”
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 20242median 4
- Fiscal 20252median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 6,425 | 2026-05-21 | 10-K |
| 2025-03-31 | 6,000 | 2025-05-15 | 10-K |
| 2024-03-31 | 5,705 | 2024-05-16 | 10-K |
| 2023-03-31 | 5,870 | 2023-05-18 | 10-K |
| 2022-03-31 | 5,635 | 2022-05-19 | 10-K |
| 2021-03-31 | 5,000 | 2021-05-27 | 10-K |
| 2020-03-31 | 4,950 | 2020-06-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-03-31 | 4,400 | 2019-05-30 | 10-K |
| 2018-03-31 | 4,400 | 2018-05-30 | 10-K |
| 2017-03-31 | 4,500 | 2017-05-30 | 10-K |
| 2016-03-31 | 4,300 | 2016-09-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-03-31 | 3,950 | 2016-03-29 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector found no count; the filing’s table states 6,425 (rule 2).
- The segment table shows intersegment eliminations at 100% and is not usable.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001604028-26-000019, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 26% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Advanced Drainage Systems, 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 Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. employ?
- 6,425 as of March 31, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending March 31, 2026 states. About 90% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Plastics Product Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 27% desk work, 12% people work and 61% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 2 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 2, 2 and 2 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 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 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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