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Epoxy resins and Oil and product pipelines

Their prices have moved together.

Epoxy resins (chemical) and Oil and product pipelines (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: pipe coating

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Steel line pipe is protected against corrosion by fusion-bonded epoxy and other coatings. Coatings are a small part of construction cost, and the resin proxy shows no link to pipeline tariffs, with monthly moves correlating at -0.09.

  • -0.09 monthly change correlation
  • -0.10 12-month change correlation
  • 2.26 fitted elasticity

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