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Chlorine and Fluorochemicals and refrigerants

Their prices have moved together.

Chlorine (chemical) and Fluorochemicals and refrigerants (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: chlorocarbon feed

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Refrigerants are made by fluorinating chlorinated feedstocks such as chloroform and methylene chloride, which come from chlor-alkali chains. Against the chlor-alkali proxy, monthly moves correlate at 0.04 and yearly moves at 0.29.

  • 0.04 monthly change correlation
  • 0.29 12-month change correlation
  • 1.54 fitted elasticity

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