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Chlorine and Epoxy resins

Their prices have moved together.

Chlorine (chemical) and Epoxy resins (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: input

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

Epichlorohydrin is made with chlorine, and the chlorine leaves as salt, so chlor-alkali costs feed into epoxy. The alkalies index moves with the thermosetting proxy at 0.23 monthly and 0.67 yearly, and 0.43 over the last five years.

  • 0.23 monthly change correlation
  • 0.67 12-month change correlation
  • 0.44 fitted elasticity

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