# Generators and alternators and Paints and coatings

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/generators-and-alternators-and-paints-and-coatings/

[Generators and alternators](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_generators/) (energy) and [Paints and coatings](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/paints_coatings/) (chemical): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: insulation and coating

*Cost and price · Strong · Both ways*

Windings are insulated with resin varnishes and frames are coated against corrosion. These are small costs, but both indices follow US industrial inflation, so yearly moves correlate at 0.77 and monthly moves at 0.30, more a shared cycle than a direct input.

- **0.30** monthly change correlation
- **0.77** 12-month change correlation
- **0.78** fitted elasticity

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