Cement and Paints and coatings

Their prices have moved together.

Cement (commodity) and Paints and coatings (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: construction demand

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

New housing and buildings drive both cement and decorative paint demand. Monthly moves correlate at 0.21, and at 0.40 over the last five years, reflecting a common construction and inflation driver rather than any shared input.

• 0.21 monthly change correlation
• 0.15 12-month change correlation
• 1.01 fitted elasticity

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