# Organic pigments and Paints and coatings

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/organic-pigments-and-paints-and-coatings/

[Organic pigments](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/pigments/) (chemical) and [Paints and coatings](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/paints_coatings/) (chemical): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: main customer

*Cost and price · Strong · Both ways*

Paints and coatings are the biggest buyers of organic pigments, alongside printing inks and plastics. The two indexes correlate at 0.17 for monthly moves and 0.63 for yearly moves, reflecting shared demand and slow price resets.

- **0.17** monthly change correlation
- **0.63** 12-month change correlation
- **0.65** fitted elasticity

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