Carbon black and Coking coal

Coking coal is a raw material for carbon black; their prices have moved together.

Carbon black (chemical) and Coking coal (energy): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Feedstock

Physical flow · Direct · Coking coal → Carbon black

Carbon black is made from coking coal: it is one of the raw materials its production routes start from.

2. Price link: feedstock source

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

Coal tar from coke ovens, which turn coking coal into coke for steel, is another feedstock, important in China and India. Monthly moves correlate at 0.00 and yearly moves at 0.64, as both follow energy cycles.

• -0.00 monthly change correlation
• 0.64 12-month change correlation
• 0.52 fitted elasticity

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