Salt and Vinyl chloride monomer

Salt is a raw material for vinyl chloride monomer; their prices have moved together.

Salt (commodity) and Vinyl chloride monomer (chemical): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Feedstock

Physical flow · Direct · Salt → Vinyl chloride monomer

Vinyl chloride monomer is made from salt: it is one of the raw materials its production routes start from.

2. Price link: raw material

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Salt is the source of the chlorine, but it is cheap, plentiful and sold on long contracts. The salt index barely moves with the proxy, -0.01 monthly, so salt is a negligible price driver.

• -0.01 monthly change correlation
• -0.24 12-month change correlation
• 0.81 fitted elasticity

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