# Copper and Organic pigments

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/copper-and-organic-pigments/

[Copper](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/copper/) (commodity) and [Organic pigments](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/pigments/) (chemical): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: phthalocyanine metal

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Copper phthalocyanine, the most important blue and green pigment, has a copper atom at its centre. Copper is a small part of its cost, so monthly moves correlate at only 0.02 and yearly moves at -0.13.

- **0.02** monthly change correlation
- **-0.13** 12-month change correlation
- **0.33** fitted elasticity

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