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Furniture and Metal products

Furniture buys from Metal products; furniture depends on metal products.

Furniture (industry) and Metal products (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹4.5 per ₹100 · Furniture buys from Metal products

Furniture buys goods or services from Metal products; counted through every round of supply, ₹4.5 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹4.5 of every ₹100 of Furniture output, all rounds
  • ₹3.2 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Metal products → Furniture

2 of the enterprise types in Furniture depend on metal products.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Hardware, fitting and metal-frame makers: sheet, tube and castings (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Office and contract furniture makers: steel parts (criticality 2 of 5)

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