# Aluminium and Water treatment chemicals

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

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/aluminium-and-water-treatment-chemicals/

[Aluminium](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/aluminum/) (commodity) and [Water treatment chemicals](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/water_treatment/) (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.