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Aluminium and Lighting and displays

Their prices have moved together.

Aluminium (commodity) and Lighting and displays (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: housings

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

LED fixtures use aluminium housings to carry heat away from the chips. The link hardly shows in the data, with monthly moves correlating at -0.05, because fixture prices are set on catalogues and the electronics matter more.

  • -0.05 monthly change correlation
  • -0.01 12-month change correlation
  • 0.24 fitted elasticity

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