West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (WST)

Pharmaceutical packaging components, counted by function. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 86 of the 95 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

West states approximately 10,800 employees at December 31, 2025 excluding contractors and temporary workers, 73% in Proprietary Products, 17% in Contract-Manufactured Products and 10% corporate, so the elastomer component plants, the contract device plants and the stated corporate share take those function shares (a).

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, 26% at the end of 2027, 30% at the end of 2028, 32% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 32% desk work, 12% people work and 56% 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), 29% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

10,800 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing's table counts 43% of employees in North America, 42% in Europe, 12% in Asia Pacific and 3% in South America; the U.S. alone is not stated.

The filing: “Our People As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 10,800 people, excluding contractors and temporary workers, in our operations throughout the world.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: By function: Proprietary Products 73%, Contract-Manufactured Products 17%, Corporate 10%; by region North America 43%, Europe 42%, Asia Pacific 12%, South America 3%; contractors and temporary workers excluded; 37% of full-time employees female.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Rubber 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.

• The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (GT, 63,000 employees)15% now, 24% by 2028
• Gates Industrial Corporation plc (GTES, 13,000 employees)15% now, 24% by 2028
• Titan International, Inc. (TWI, 8,200 employees)16% now, 28% 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.

Limits of this reading

• Contractors and temporary workers are excluded by the filing's own count (rule 8).
• The U.S. share is not stated; North America holds 43%.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000105770-26-000010, 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.