Aluminium and Tin

Their prices have moved together.

Aluminium (commodity) and Tin (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: competing material

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

Aluminium cans compete with tinplate in drinks and food packaging, and both metals follow industrial demand. Monthly moves correlate at 0.60 and yearly moves at 0.78, a common-driver link rather than a cost one.

• 0.60 monthly change correlation
• 0.78 12-month change correlation
• 0.90 fitted elasticity

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