Often the shortest distance between manufactured parts and the surface finishing they need is a straight line that can take a few feet or many miles, and sometimes days or weeks. In the meantime, rust and other oxidation can start forming on those parts, which can drive up costs through additional cleaning and surface preparation.
It’s a problem faced by both sides of the manufacturing process; those who make the parts and ship them to be finished to specification, and the finishers who often get parts with some type of rust or foreign matter on them because of the time delay.
