Antibiotic intermediates (6-APA, 7-ACA) and Small-molecule APIs

Their prices have moved together.

Antibiotic intermediates (6-APA, 7-ACA) (chemical) and Small-molecule APIs (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: sister input chain

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Antibiotic APIs are built from fermentation intermediates such as 6-APA, a separate chain from synthetic APIs. The antibiotics proxy correlates at -0.03 for monthly moves and 0.19 over the last five years, so the two chains price largely independently.

• -0.03 monthly change correlation
• -0.08 12-month change correlation
• 0.10 fitted elasticity

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