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Flexible Manufacturing in Hermosillo, Sonora Starts Here
Tetakawi’s Rio Sonora Manufacturing Campus has everything you need to launch, operate and grow your own factory in Mexico. Choose the footprint, not just the address.
Overview
Plan the Plant You Need
You run your own factory, your process and your quality. Tetakawi runs everything around it. In Hermosillo you can move into a building that is standing, or have the one you need built beside it.
More Than an Industrial Park in Hermosillo
Space & Land
Total Land: 210 acres, master-planned
Industrial Space: Three Class A buildings built; master plan holds over 7M sq ft
Availability: Three move-in-ready buildings (36,000 to 39,000 sq ft each), plus new construction on our standard footprint
Expansion: Negotiable first right of refusal on the lot adjacent to your building
Utilities & Infrastructure
Electrical Power: 60 MVA of capacity contracted; 7.5 MVA energized and running to the buildings today
Natural Gas: High-capacity 6-inch distribution line
New Construction: Approximately 6 months
Security: Controlled access with CCTV monitoring
Location & Logistics
U.S. Border Access: About 175 mi to the Nogales, AZ crossing; Tetakawi cross-dock in Tucson, AZ
Regional Access: Hermosillo International Airport 7 mi (direct service to Phoenix); Port of Guaymas about 85 mi
Workforce & Amenities
Labor Market: Hermosillo metro, about one million people, the largest city in Sonora
Industrial Base: 56,955 registered manufacturing jobs across aerospace, automotive, electronics, and medical; Ford has built vehicles here since 1986
Talent Pipeline: 40 university campuses, led by Universidad de Sonora’s Hermosillo campus with roughly 28,600 students
Certifications
IMMEX shelter program; ISO 9001 quality management systems
Why Rio Sonora
Why Companies Choose Hermosillo
Hermosillo is Sonora’s capital, its largest city and its deepest labor market. It is also where a plant can grow onto the next lot without moving.
Engineers and Technicians, In Volume
Universities around the city, and a base that already builds vehicles, aircraft parts and electronics. The engineers are already working nearby.
Room for the Plant You Have in Mind
Class A buildings are standing, with adjacent lots for what comes next. Tell us the footprint you need and we build it in about six months.
Your Team Flies In Without Connecting
Direct flights from U.S. cities land here, and Highway 15 runs north from Hermosillo to the Arizona border and our Tucson cross-dock.
Statistics
Rio Sonora, by the Numbers
210
Master-planned acres on one property.
7M+
Sq ft of buildable capacity in the plan.
60
MVA contracted, with 7.5 live.
On Campus
Around Your Factory, Already Running
With Tetakawi you walk into a turnkey operating environment, run from the Campus itself, with HR inside your building:
- Recruiting, payroll and HR, with Tetakawi as employer of record
- Import and export under our programs, through our Tucson cross-dock
- EHS, environmental and fiscal filings handled on the Campus
- Medical services on site, climate control and controlled access
- Build-out and equipment yours to specify; utilities at cost
Campus Pillars
Everything You Need to Reach Your Potential in Hermosillo
More than just shelter services in Hermosillo. Tetakawi runs these four on the Campus itself, with the teams behind them a walk from your floor.
Industrial Space
Move into a finished Class A building at Rio Sonora, or have the next one built beside it. Tetakawi maintains the base building and the Campus around it.
Workforce
Set the roles and the standards, then run the plant. Tetakawi recruits and employs the people in Hermosillo, runs payroll and benefits, and holds the union agreement, so your managers run production, not HR.
Logistics
Move freight on carriers you select, or consolidated through our cross-dock in Tucson. Tetakawi holds the Mexican import and export permits, so your team moves product, not paperwork.
Compliance
Operate under Tetakawi’s IMMEX shelter program, without forming your own Mexican company. Tetakawi’s entity holds the registrations and the administration, while you run the plant in Hermosillo.
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FAQs
What Manufacturers Ask Us About Rio Sonora
The questions we get most often from manufacturers looking at Hermosillo. If yours is not here, ask us.
Do we need to form our own entity to manufacture at Rio Sonora?
No.
Your operation runs inside Tetakawi’s Mexican entity under our IMMEX shelter framework. That entity employs your workforce, holds the import and export registrations, and is the one Mexico registers, audits and inspects. You run your plant in a building on the Campus and direct your own production.
Tetakawi also runs the property, and has run Campuses in Sonora since 1986.
Can we staff a plant in Hermosillo and keep the people we train?
Yes.
More than 58,000 people already work in manufacturing across Hermosillo, in aerospace, automotive, electronics and medical products, so candidates who have worked to those standards are common. Universidad de Sonora’s Hermosillo campus alone has roughly 28,600 students.
You give us the job descriptions and the hiring plan. We recruit and screen, present the candidates who fit, and you choose. On your instruction we make the offer, and Tetakawi employs them and runs the payroll. We recommend pay from what the same jobs already earn around the Campus. HR, transport and labor compliance are Tetakawi’s from there.
Is there space available at Rio Sonora now, and how quickly could we move in?
Yes.
Three move-in-ready Class A buildings are open now, and the master plan holds over 7M sq ft beyond what is built today.
Each building is between 36,000 and 39,000 square feet, and two of them can be combined into roughly 75,000. Availability moves, so check with us before you build a timeline around it.
If your production date depends on new construction, say so on the first call and we will schedule against it.
How do costs in Hermosillo compare with the U.S. or a border city?
Lower than either, on direct labor.
Direct labor at this Campus starts at about $5.53 per hour fully fringed for unskilled positions, with welders and CNC operators from about $9.44 and CNC machinists from about $13.32 (at 17.5 pesos per dollar). Fully fringed means the wage plus the employer’s payroll taxes and benefits.
For scale, the same roles in U.S. manufacturing start at about $28 an hour for unskilled positions, about $34 for welders and CNC operators and about $35 for machinists, wages plus benefits (our calculation from BLS 2025 wage and 2026 benefit data).
Tell us what you are planning, and we are happy to run the numbers with you.
How does our freight reach the U.S., and who is responsible at the border?
Through Nogales, about 175 miles up Highway 15.
Your freight moves north under Tetakawi’s Mexican export programs and is received, staged and consolidated at our own cross-dock in Tucson, an hour north of the border, where Mexican and U.S. carriers hand off and partial loads are combined for the U.S. leg. Hermosillo International is seven miles from the Campus with direct service to Phoenix, and the deep-water Port of Guaymas is 90 miles south if an ocean leg suits your suppliers.
In Mexico, Tetakawi is the importer and exporter of record; entering the United States, your company is. A licensed Mexican broker files the entries under our programs, and your U.S. broker files from the export documentation and part-level data our team helps prepare.
What does it take to find out whether Rio Sonora is right for us?
Four steps, same as every Campus.
1. Get in touch. A conversation about your goals for Hermosillo: volumes, processes, headcount and timing.
2. Measure ROI. We build the business case with you: the full cost of running your operation on this Campus, the risks and the trade-offs. If another Campus fits better, we build that one too.
3. Site visit. Walk the Campus, meet the people who would run your account, and talk with manufacturers already producing here.
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.
