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Fixing iron oxidation is great, my old VW would appreciate it, but I don't see how it helps much... and I'm sure marine coatings have a long history and a lot o

Fixing iron oxidation is great, my old VW would appreciate it, but I don't see how it helps much... and I'm sure marine coatings have a long history and a lot of technology invested. Wouldn't a systematically-better approach be to do as much local-to-customer, JIT manufacturing and stop shipping finished goods all over the world? If not just for climate-change but for reduced time-to-customer? (Caveat: Still must ship materials and specialized/complex goods that aren't available locally.)

peterburkimsher 7y ago
Local manufacturing works great for some industries, such as band T-shirts. I know from chatting to Anberlin after their show in Sydney that they get T-shirts printed in each country they tour in. It simply wouldn't work for electronics. A company could lose its brand recognition just because of bad PR from an incompetent assembly plant in one region. Customers wouldn't be able to tell the difference between regional variants, and outrage on the Internet would spread worldwide. It's just a whole lot safer to keep it centralised with proper quality controls.