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Aluminium and Capacitors and supercapacitors

Their prices have moved together.

Aluminium (commodity) and Capacitors and supercapacitors (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: foil and casing

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Aluminium foil collects current from the electrodes and aluminium cans hold the cells. The link barely shows in the data: monthly moves correlate at -0.05, because the proxy is dominated by small circuit capacitors priced by contract and factory scale rather than metal.

  • -0.05 monthly change correlation
  • -0.10 12-month change correlation
  • 0.68 fitted elasticity

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