Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
Cytec Industries, Inc., Member of the Syensqo Group Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $418M
- Total assets
- 2,073
- Participants
- 97th
- Percentile by assets
- $201,694
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Syensqo USA Pension Plan · Sponsored by Cytec Industries, Inc., Member of the Syensqo Group · New Jersey · Manufacturing
$418M in assets, 2,073 participants
Cytec Industries, Inc., Member of the Syensqo Group's Syensqo USA Pension Plan reported $418M in total assets and 2,073 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 97th percentile by assets among filed plans. Figures are as reported by the plan sponsor to the Department of Labor, not audited or endorsed by PlainRetire.
- 97th percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
What the 2024 filing shows
Syensqo USA Pension Plan holds $418M for 2,073 participants - about $201,694 per participant, in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets, down 56.8% over the 2024 plan year.
- $418M
- total plan assets (2024 EOY)
- 2,073
- covered participants
- 97th
- percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
- $201,694
- avg assets per participant
The plan reported a net loss of $499M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024
What the Filing Says About Syensqo USA Pension Plan
Syensqo USA Pension Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Cytec Industries, Inc., Member of the Syensqo Group, headquartered in New Jersey. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $418M in total end-of-year assets and covers 2,073 participants across the Manufacturing industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 223268660, and the plan has been effective since 1994-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets contracted severely from $969M at the beginning of 2024 to $418M at year-end - down 56.8%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $333M, with reported net income of -$499M driven by investment returns, contributions received, and benefit payments during the period. These figures reflect what the plan administrator certified on Schedule H or Schedule I of the Form 5500 annual return and can be compared against 2 prior plan-year filings from the same sponsor shown below.
Across the 3 plan years Cytec Industries, Inc., Member of the Syensqo Group has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.1B to $418M, a decline of 60.4%, while reported participants moved from 989 to 2,073 (+109.6%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2022 at $1.1B; the softest was 2024 at $418M. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.1B in assets across 1 plan covering 989 participants; 2023 - $969M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,819 participants; 2024 - $418M in assets across 1 plan covering 2,073 participants.
By assets, Syensqo USA Pension Plan outranks 97% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 4.2x the national average plan size of $100M and 730 average participants.
Asset totals and participant counts reflect a single plan year snapshot and can change materially with market conditions, plan mergers, or workforce changes. Fields such as "net income" include both realized investment performance and contribution/distribution flows, a single-year figure does not by itself indicate plan health or participant outcomes. This page summarizes public DOL disclosures for research and educational purposes only and is not retirement, tax, legal, or financial advice. Before making decisions about your own retirement benefits or evaluating an employer's plan, verify the underlying filing directly via the DOL EFAST2 system and consult a qualified professional.
How the percentile is calculated: we count every plan that filed a 2024 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (116,472 plans), rank Syensqo USA Pension Plan against all of them by total assets, and report the share of those plans it outranks. A plan reporting no asset figure for the year is excluded from the ranking rather than assumed to be zero.
Financial Summary (2024)
| Total Assets (Beginning of Year) | $969M |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $418M |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $333M |
| Net Income | -$499M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 223268660 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1994-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Cytec Industries, Inc., Member of the Syensqo Group)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 989 | $1.1B |
| 2023 | 1 | 2,819 | $969M |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,073 | $418M |
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Syensqo USA Pension Plan vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in New Jersey, assets vs. participants
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Similar-Sized Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans Nationally
Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states closest to Syensqo USA Pension Plan by total assets, not by location.
- Bss Retirement Plan (WA) $418M · 116
- Resilient Floor Covering Pension Fund (CA) $418M · 1,331
- Westlake Defined Benefit Plan (TX) $417M · 981
- Bae Space & Mission Systems Pension Plan (VA) $417M · 4,279
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Syensqo USA Pension Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Syensqo USA Pension Plan ranks in the top 5% of all filed plans by assets. See the largest plans
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- Cytec Industries, Inc., Member of the Syensqo Group's sponsor-wide assets have declined 60.4% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Manufacturing plans
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2024.
Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 223268660.
Reference: IRS Publication 560, Retirement Plans for Small Business, contribution-limit rules.
Reference: IRS Publication 590-B, Distributions from IRAs, RMD rules under SECURE Act 2.0.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainRetire is rendered directly from the Department of Labor's Form 5500 annual return filings, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-07-24.