# Salt and Soda ash

Their prices have moved together.

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

[Salt](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/salt/) (commodity) and [Soda ash](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/soda_ash/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: main use

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Synthetic soda ash plants, including those in Gujarat and China, use salt brine and limestone. In this data soda ash shares one producer price index with chlorine and caustic soda, so it shows the same lack of link with salt, at -0.10 monthly, while natural soda ash from trona needs no salt.

- **-0.10** monthly change correlation
- **-0.09** 12-month change correlation
- **0.71** fitted elasticity

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