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Bioethanol and Starch and cellulose derivatives

Their prices have moved together.

Bioethanol (chemical) and Starch and cellulose derivatives (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: competing use

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Wet and dry mills choose between making starch products and fuel ethanol from the same corn, and ethanol margins pull capacity one way or the other. The indices show it over a year, with 12-month moves correlating at 0.43.

  • 0.07 monthly change correlation
  • 0.43 12-month change correlation
  • 0.26 fitted elasticity

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