# Chlorine and Vinyl chloride monomer

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/chlorine-and-vinyl-chloride-monomer/

[Chlorine](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/chlorine/) (chemical) and [Vinyl chloride monomer](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/vcm/) (chemical): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: derived product

*Cost and price · Strong · Both ways*

Chlorine reacts with ethylene to make vinyl chloride, the building block of PVC. The VCM proxy is a broad organics index; monthly moves correlate at 0.20 and yearly moves at 0.63.

- **0.20** monthly change correlation
- **0.63** 12-month change correlation
- **1.11** fitted elasticity

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