# Butadiene and Natural rubber

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/butadiene-and-natural-rubber/

[Butadiene](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/butadiene/) (chemical) and [Natural rubber](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/rubber/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: substitute feedstock

*Cost and price · Strong · Both ways*

Butadiene is the main input to synthetic rubber, so it sets the price of natural rubber's rival. The proxy is a US petrochemicals index, and monthly moves correlate at 0.43 and yearly moves at 0.69, largely through oil.

- **0.43** monthly change correlation
- **0.69** 12-month change correlation
- **1.06** fitted elasticity

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