Gas pipelines and city gas and Gypsum

Their prices have moved together.

Gas pipelines and city gas (energy) and Gypsum (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: energy cost

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Wallboard plants burn natural gas to calcine gypsum and dry the boards, making delivered gas a major cost. Monthly moves barely correlate, at 0.03, but yearly moves reach 0.35 as gas cost changes feed into wallboard prices over time.

• 0.03 monthly change correlation
• 0.35 12-month change correlation
• 0.94 fitted elasticity

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