# Ethylene and Styrene

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/ethylene-and-styrene/

[Ethylene](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/ethylene/) (chemical) and [Styrene](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/styrene/) (chemical): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: feedstock

*Cost and price · Strong · Both ways*

Ethylene is the second building block, reacted with benzene to make ethylbenzene. It shares the petrochemical proxy with benzene, so the measured figures are the same as for benzene and cannot separate the two inputs.

- **0.50** monthly change correlation
- **0.73** 12-month change correlation
- **0.10** fitted elasticity

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