Our Story
Learn our story, leadership, and mission shaping manufacturing in Mexico.
Five Manufacturing Campuses,
One Standard
Every Campus runs space, workforce, logistics, and compliance the same way, under the same partner. The only decision left is where.
Our Ecosystem
More Than an Industrial Park. A Complete Ecosystem.
You aren’t coming to Mexico to coordinate vendors. You’re coming to launch, operate, and grow. An industrial park hands you an empty building. A Campus hands you a running environment, and the economies of scale that come with it.
Site Selection
How We Choose Sites That Perform Over Time
Every Tetakawi Campus is selected to support stable operations today and allow labor, infrastructure, and local networks to keep strengthening for decades.
Scalable Labor Markets
We select regions where workforce pipelines can support operations today and be intentionally developed over time, helping manufacturers maintain staffing stability as demand grows.
Reliable Logistics
Campuses are located near proven transportation corridors and ports to keep material flowing between your global suppliers and your U.S. customers.
Established Presence
Instead of starting from scratch, manufacturers operate inside Campuses backed by established local networks, vetted suppliers, and government relationships already in place, reducing friction and execution risk from day one.
Locations
Explore Our Five Manufacturing Campuses in Mexico
Whether you’re entering Mexico for the first time or expanding an existing operation, our Manufacturing Campuses provide flexible location options with consistent standards and long-term stability.
Bella Vista Our most established Campus, open since 1986, with its own daycare, medical clinic and desalination plant.
Zapa Operate an hour from Monterrey's industrial ecosystem and supplier base, in one of Mexico's safest states.
Mazatlán Our newest Campus, on the Pacific coast, with a deep-water port and a workforce that can scale with you.
Roca Fuerte Our advanced manufacturing Campus, with a skilled machining workforce and supplier base built since 2000.
Rio Sonora Our largest master plan, in Sonora’s capital, with direct flights from the U.S. and buildings ready now.
Why Tetakawi
What Stays the Same
at Every Campus
Whichever Campus you choose, here’s what you can expect. The setting changes. The standard doesn’t. The same four pillars, and Tetakawi’s own people on site.
Launch Faster
You go from contract to production in months, not years. The environment around your factory is ready before you arrive.
Operate Predictably
One partner answers for everything outside your production line, so the cost of running in Mexico is one you can plan on.
Grow on Your Terms
Your space, people, and capacity scale to match demand, with the same team beside you. Growth is a decision, not a project.
Testimonials
One Model, In Their Words
These leaders run their own factories on our Campuses, and they weighed the same choice you’re weighing now.
“If you’re an executive looking for an operation in Mexico, you know you need to be there. Selecting the location is a big piece of that, and you don’t know what you don’t know. Going to a place where there’s something already set up and running, and being successful, can settle a lot of that decision.”
Jeremy Main, Senior Vice President, Consolidated Precision Products
“There’s a lot of turnover at a border, and training people takes time. You want people who work longer with you and grow that sense of belonging to the company. That is why the company chose Empalme: a little to the south of the border, but not too far, in a place where people stay.”
Carlos Rivera, Plant Manager, HUBER+SUHNER
“Aside from the physical space where we operate, Tetakawi provides the manpower we need, supports us in getting things in and out of the country, and helps make sure we comply with all regulations. Once we started with Tetakawi we were up and running and shipping finished product in three months. That is what the Campus gives us.”
Agustín Mendoza, Plant Manager, Commercial Sewing
“When I started in Guaymas we had 350 employees in one building. Now we’re in three buildings with nearly 800 employees, and our plan is to keep growing this operation. There is a lot of conversation between Tetakawi and BAE about that growth, and that work is happening now.”
Brian Berich, Director of Operations, BAE Systems
“Why Mexico first? Saltillo is in the north of the country, the border is close and we are part of North America, so import and export is easier. Saltillo has very good knowledge of industries and manufacturing processes, and we receive products from our sister plants in the US, consolidate here and ship them across Mexico.”
Mauricio García, Plant Manager, Gemini Group
“We’ve had a really good experience working with Tetakawi in every park we’ve operated in. They work with you up front on understanding what kind of workforce you need, so you don’t end up in a town where there’s no people, and you land in a park where they have access to the people you need.”
Jon Jensen, Manufacturing CEO, repeat Tetakawi client since 2001
FAQs
What to Ask Before You Choose a Campus
The questions we get most often from manufacturers comparing our five Campuses. If yours is not here, ask us.
How are the five Campuses different from each other?
They sit in different labor markets and serve different industry mixes.
Bella Vista is in Empalme and has operated since 1986. Zapa is in Saltillo, inside Coahuila’s automotive cluster, 70 minutes from Monterrey. Mazatlán is a coastal city with a Pacific port. Roca Fuerte is in Guaymas, inside an aerospace cluster. Rio Sonora is in Hermosillo, Sonora’s capital and largest city.
The standard is the same at all five. What changes is the labor market, the industry mix and the route north.
Why aren't your Campuses in border cities?
Because the shortest drive to the border is not always the best place to run a plant.
Border cities sit inside Mexico’s border wage zone, where statutory minimums run higher and hundreds of plants compete for the same operators.
Our Campuses sit in regions with their own industrial history and their own labor pools, in Sonora, Sinaloa and Coahuila, each on an established corridor to a border crossing or a Pacific port. Freight reaches the U.S. through our own cross-docks in Tucson and McAllen, and a partial load does not have to cross as one.
How is a Tetakawi Campus different from a shelter service provider?
The legal framework is the same. What differs is how the services are put together.
Your plant runs under a Mexican entity’s IMMEX shelter program, and that entity employs the workforce and holds the registrations. Most shelter providers offer a similar list of services.
On a Campus they are one company on one property, with a Campus director on site, and that compounds three ways.
Economies of scale: recruiting, trade and facilities run at a size no single plant would build alone.
Economies of scope: one organization runs all four pillars, so the handoffs between them are ours.
Economies of learning: what one launch teaches goes into the next one.
Does the Campus I choose change what it costs to operate?
Yes.
Labor, real estate and logistics all move with the Campus, and they move differently for a high-mix aerospace plant than for a high-volume assembly line.
Tell us what you are planning. We model the costs for your operation, put the Campuses side by side, and help you make the best decision for your company.
We already operate in Mexico. Can we move production to a Campus, or add capacity at one?
Yes.
If you need additional capacity, you can set up an operation on a Tetakawi Campus while your operation elsewhere in Mexico carries on as it is. Several of our clients do exactly that. If you are closing a facility, starting over, or moving from another shelter provider, a Campus works the same way. Either way, your plant runs inside Tetakawi’s Mexican entity under our shelter program, with Tetakawi employing the workforce, holding the registrations and running the Campus.
Tell us how you operate in Mexico today, and we will show you what a Campus would carry.
How do we choose the right Campus for our operation?
Four steps, same at every Campus.
1. Get in touch. A conversation about the operation you are planning: the process, the roles you need and how many, where your materials come from and where the finished product goes.
2. Measure ROI. We build the business case with you: the full cost of running your operation on a Campus, the risks and the trade-offs, and which Campus fits. If more than one could work, we build both.
3. Site visit. Walk the Campus, or two or three, meet the people who would run your account, and talk with manufacturers already producing there.
4. Launch and grow. When you give the green light, the same team that helped you build the case guides the launch, and the people who run the Campus are a phone call or a short walk away.
