# Natural gas and Soda ash

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/natural-gas-and-soda-ash/

[Natural gas](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/natural_gas/) (energy) and [Soda ash](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/soda_ash/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: energy cost

*Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways*

Soda ash plants use much steam and heat, from calcining trona to drying the product. The proxy index shows little monthly link with European gas, at 0.10, but yearly moves correlate at 0.49, with the strongest link when gas leads by four months.

- **0.10** monthly change correlation
- **0.49** 12-month change correlation
- **0.20** fitted elasticity

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