# Salt and Vinyl chloride monomer

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

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/salt-and-vinyl-chloride-monomer/

[Salt](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/salt/) (commodity) and [Vinyl chloride monomer](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/vcm/) (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.