Sulphuric acid and Titanium dioxide

Their prices have moved together.

Sulphuric acid (chemical) and Titanium dioxide (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: process input

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

The sulphate process dissolves ilmenite in sulphuric acid, a large cost for Chinese plants, which mostly use this route. Monthly moves correlate at 0.13 and yearly moves at 0.40, as acid costs pass into pigment prices slowly.

• 0.13 monthly change correlation
• 0.40 12-month change correlation
• 0.43 fitted elasticity

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