Aluminium and Water treatment chemicals

Aluminium is a raw material for water treatment chemicals; their prices have moved together.

Aluminium (commodity) and Water treatment chemicals (chemical): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Feedstock

Physical flow · Direct · Aluminium → Water treatment chemicals

Water treatment chemicals is made from aluminium: it is one of the raw materials its production routes start from.

2. Price link: coagulant source

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Alum and polyaluminium chloride, the most used coagulants, are made from aluminium hydroxide or bauxite. The aluminium metal price is only a loose guide: monthly moves correlate at 0.13 and yearly at 0.34, with aluminium leading by about 3 months.

• 0.13 monthly change correlation
• 0.34 12-month change correlation
• 0.33 fitted elasticity

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