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Adhesives and sealants and Timber

Their prices have moved together.

Adhesives and sealants (chemical) and Timber (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: processing input

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Plywood and engineered wood are glued with resins, so adhesive costs affect wood products. Sawnwood itself uses no glue, and the data shows no link: monthly moves correlate at minus 0.04.

  • -0.04 monthly change correlation
  • -0.11 12-month change correlation
  • -0.30 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.