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Building materials and Crushed stone

Building materials depends on crushed stone.

Building materials (industry) and Crushed stone (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Crushed stone → Building materials

3 of the enterprise types in Building materials depend on crushed stone; for the most dependent, it rates 3 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 3 enterprise types depend on it
  • 3 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Gypsum board, insulation and roofing makers: basalt for stone wool (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Limestone, aggregate and sand quarry operators: product of the quarry (criticality 2 of 5)
  • Ready-mix concrete and precast producers: coarse aggregate (criticality 2 of 5)

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