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Aluminium and Building heat recovery

Their prices have moved together.

Aluminium (commodity) and Building heat recovery (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: exchanger cores

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Heat recovery ventilators use thin aluminium plate or rotary wheel exchangers. The link barely shows, with monthly moves correlating at 0.01, as aluminium is a small part of finished units sold on annual price lists.

  • 0.01 monthly change correlation
  • 0.10 12-month change correlation
  • 0.41 fitted elasticity

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