# Benzene and Dyes

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/benzene-and-dyes/

[Benzene](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/benzene/) (chemical) and [Dyes](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/dyes/) (chemical): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: aromatic feed

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Most dye intermediates start from benzene or naphthalene. Yet the US dye index barely tracks the petrochemical proxy, with monthly moves at 0.00 and yearly at 0.12, because global dye prices are set by Asian supply and pollution curbs.

- **0.00** monthly change correlation
- **0.12** 12-month change correlation
- **0.00** fitted elasticity

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