Tetakawi vs Alternatives

Two decisions shape any manufacturing move: where in the world to put it, and how you’ll run it once it’s there. If Mexico is on your list, start with both: the four ways to manufacture there, and how Mexico compares with other regions.

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Who We Serve

Is a Manufacturing Campus Right for You?

We partner with established manufacturers who want to run their own operation in Mexico and stay in control of production, without carrying the space, workforce, logistics, and compliance burden alone.

Manufacturers hitting cost, labor, or capacity limits in their current location

Companies moving production closer to North American customers or out of tariff-exposed regions like China

Leadership teams who want a plant in Mexico without building a Mexican legal and administrative organization to run it

How We Stand Out

The Four Ways to Manufacture in Mexico

Standalone, a traditional shelter, contract manufacturing, or a Tetakawi Campus. All four have to solve space, workforce, logistics and compliance. On a Campus, one partner runs all four, and you keep control of production, quality and your IP.

	Standalone Operation	Tetakawi Campus Model
Control	Full control, with the full burden	Full control, with the environment managed for you
Speed	8 to 18 months, typically	Get started in as little as 30 days
Entity	Your own Mexican entity, and its liabilities	Tetakawi’s entity, under a U.S.-law agreement
Facilities	Source, build, and equip on your own	Move-in-ready space on an established Campus
Workforce	Build recruiting, HR, and payroll from scratch	Tetakawi employs the team. You run the operation.
Compliance	You hold the permits and answer to the authorities	Tetakawi holds the permits and answers to the authorities
Support	More people on your payroll to manage	On-site teams, from HR to import and export
Risk	Every risk of the launch is yours	You carry the business risk. Tetakawi carries the administrative work: the entity, the permits, the filings and the payroll.

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	Traditional Shelter	Tetakawi Campus Model
Control	High control, low integration	Full control, with the environment managed for you
Speed	Site search and fit-out come first	Get started in as little as 30 days
Entity	Their Mexican entity, typically under a Mexican agreement	Tetakawi’s entity, under a U.S.-law agreement
Facilities	Space arranged separately, often a separate company	Move-in-ready space on an established Campus
Workforce	Basic hiring support	Tetakawi employs the team. You run the operation.
Compliance	Held by the provider, same legal framework	Tetakawi holds the permits and answers to the authorities
Support	Often spread across separate vendors	On-site teams, from HR to import and export
Risk	Partially shared	You carry the business risk. Tetakawi carries the administrative work: the entity, the permits, the filings and the payroll.

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	Contract Manufacturing	Tetakawi Campus Model
Control	A third party owns and prioritizes production	Full control, with the environment managed for you
Speed	Changes wait on supplier priorities	Get started in as little as 30 days
Entity	No entity, and pricing you do not set	Tetakawi’s entity, under a U.S.-law agreement
Facilities	No facility, and your designs leave the building	Move-in-ready space on an established Campus
Workforce	Their employees, running their process	Tetakawi employs the team. You run the operation.
Compliance	Held by the supplier, out of your view	Tetakawi holds the permits and answers to the authorities
Support	Limited view of their process and quality	On-site teams, from HR to import and export
Risk	Owned by the supplier, outside your control	You carry the business risk. Tetakawi carries the administrative work: the entity, the permits, the filings and the payroll.

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Why Mexico

How Mexico Compares
to Other Regions

Compare Mexico with the other locations on your shortlist on labor cost, tariffs, logistics, and workforce depth.

Downtown street with yellow taxis and US flags, representing US-based manufacturing compared with Mexico | Tetakawi

Mexico vs the U.S.

580,000 U.S. factory jobs unfilled. Mexico: 9.7 million workers.

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Busy city street at night with shops and Chinese signage, representing Asian manufacturing alternatives to Mexico | Tetakawi

Mexico vs China

2026 effective duty on Chinese-origin goods: 22.8%. Mexico: 3.0%.

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Downtown Toronto street with the CN Tower and office towers, representing Canada as a manufacturing alternative | Tetakawi

Mexico vs Canada

Hundreds of Canadian HTS lines face 50% Section 338 duties. Mexico faces none of them.

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Rail workers in hard hats on a freight train in a palm-lined town, representing other nearshore options | Tetakawi

Mexico vs Europe

Most EU goods carry a U.S. duty of at least 10%. USMCA goods: 0%.

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Mexico vs Costa Rica

Costa Rica: about 205,000 factory workers. Mexico: 47 times as many.

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Where Manufacturers Grow With Confidence

Get Started in as Little as 30 Days

Move from decision to operating on an established Campus, not a construction site

Operate With One Accountable Partner

Space, workforce, logistics, and compliance, run the same way on every Campus, under one U.S.-law agreement

Grow on a Proven Model

60+ manufacturers on five Campuses today, and four decades behind the model

Aerial view of the residential community near the Zapa Manufacturing Campus in Saltillo | Tetakawi

INTEC has been successful for a long time, but we have not done it alone. Tetakawi has been more than a service provider. Tetakawi has been a strategic partner for us. Every manufacturer enters Mexico with different products, different customers, different goals. But what they need to be successful in Mexico is always the same. Reliable space, people, logistics, and compliance. But most assume they have to build all of it on their own. You don't. If you do it on your own, you have to go learn the ecosystem. Working with Tetakawi gets you in business much quicker, removes a lot of the risks. For a smaller company that doesn't have as much of resources as TE has, Tetakawi has good resources and will help that company to grow, to start operations in the region. Manufacturers come to Tetakawi for the Manufacturing Campus, a place where everything they need to launch, operate, and grow their own factory is already running. But they stay for the partner behind it. With Tetakawi, we are taking out the burden of indirect labor, hiring, training, laws, import export. I can focus in production, in growth, and in the culture of my plant, and in the culture of the region. You don't have to build a future in Mexico alone. So why Tetakawi? If I had to pick one universal theme that defines who Tetakawi is as a company and what value we provide our customers, it really boils down to certainty. Working with Tetakawi is very repeatable and scalable. Because they're process oriented, Tetakawi has their playbook, they run their playbook. You work together to understand who's responsible for what, and you run your play. I definitely would recommend Tetakawi. We will continue to do business with Tetakawi because we don't have any issues that we can't solve together. So I think that's why our partnership will continue for years to come. If you need to grow, if you need to expand your manufacturing capacity, and you wanna do it in North America, I invite you to come to one of our Manufacturing Campuses in Mexico.

Tetakawi team members gathered outside the Zapa Manufacturing Campus in Saltillo, Mexico

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Tetakawi vs Alternatives

Is a Manufacturing Campus Right for You?

Manufacturers hitting cost, labor, or capacity limits in their current location

Companies moving production closer to North American customers or out of tariff-exposed regions like China

Leadership teams who want a plant in Mexico without building a Mexican legal and administrative organization to run it

The Four Ways to Manufacture in Mexico

How Mexico Compares to Other Regions

Mexico vs the U.S.

Mexico vs China

Mexico vs Canada

Mexico vs Europe

Mexico vs Costa Rica

Where Manufacturers Grow With Confidence

Get Started in as Little as 30 Days

Operate With One Accountable Partner

Grow on a Proven Model

Build a Predictable Path to Manufacturing in Mexico

Start with a conversation, not a commitment: tell us your goals, and we’ll help you decide whether a Campus fits.

How Mexico Compares
to Other Regions