FAW has placed an order for oil tanker semi-trailers with Tongya Automobile Co., Ltd., the Liangshan-based semi-trailer and tanker manufacturer that has been building trailers in Shandong since 1982 — and the completed units have already left Tongya's own plant. Because Tongya designs, fabricates, welds, coats and tests every trailer inside its own factory on a 400,000 m²-plus site with 1,200-plus pieces of equipment, the order moved from confirmation to dispatch on a compressed lead time rather than waiting on outside fabricators, coating subcontractors or third-party assembly.