# Cement and Paints and coatings

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/cement-and-paints-and-coatings/

[Cement](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/cement/) (commodity) and [Paints and coatings](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/paints_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.