# Tin and Transformers and power electronics

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/tin-and-transformers-and-power-electronics/

[Tin](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/tin/) (commodity) and [Transformers and power electronics](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_power_electronics/) (energy): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: solder demand

*Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways*

Every circuit board and power module is soldered, so electronics and power equipment output drives tin demand. The proxy is a US transformer price index, which correlates only weakly with tin: 0.14 monthly and 0.38 yearly.

- **0.14** monthly change correlation
- **0.38** 12-month change correlation
- **1.13** fitted elasticity

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