Our Story
Learn our story, leadership, and mission shaping manufacturing in Mexico.
Advanced Manufacturing in Guaymas Starts Here
Our Manufacturing Campus for precision industries: machinists trained on site, an aerospace cluster on the property, and everything a plant needs to succeed in Mexico.
Overview
Built for Work That Cannot Slip
Aerospace and medical work needs people with the skills. Here they are local: Guaymas trains machinists, our training center is next door, and heat treat, plating and testing are on site.
Roca Fuerte Campus
Space & Land
Total Land: 98 acres
Industrial Space: ~1.7M sq ft under management
Availability: Expansion under way; talk to us early about timing
Utilities & Infrastructure
Electrical Power: 16 MVA (16,000 kVA), run to the buildings on a high-voltage supply from the national grid
Natural Gas: 4-inch line at 300 PSI
Water: ~185,000 gallons of on-site storage, with additional capacity under construction
Security: Controlled access and CCTV with 24/7 monitoring
Location & Logistics
U.S. Border Access: ~250 mi via Highway 15 to the Nogales, AZ crossing; Tetakawi cross-dock in Tucson, AZ
Regional Access: Port of Guaymas nearby; Hermosillo, the state capital, about 85 mi (about 90 minutes)
Workforce & Amenities
CEFTA Training Center: On-site CNC and precision-machining talent development
Employee Transportation: 87 daily bus routes serving the Guaymas region
On-Site Amenities: Medical center and employee support services
Certifications
IMMEX shelter program; OEA (Authorized Economic Operator); ISO 9001 quality management systems
Why Roca Fuerte
Why Companies Choose
Roca Fuerte
Guaymas, Sonora, is one of the few cities where an aerospace machinist is an ordinary hire, after years of engine work, heat treat and testing here.
Your Machinists Trained Right Next Door
Our training center on the Campus teaches CNC, blueprint reading and metrology with local colleges. You hire people who trained next door.
Heat Treat and Plating, Minutes Away
An aerospace and engine-components cluster shares the property. Heat treat, plating and testing are minutes away, working to the same specs.
Your Import-Export Team Is on Campus
Your freight moves under Tetakawi’s Mexican registrations, and the import-export and EHS teams that keep it moving work right here on the Campus.
Statistics
Roca Fuerte, by the Numbers
25+
Years helping manufacturers in Guaymas.
20+
International manufacturers on Campus.
5,500+
Employees supported on the Campus.
On Campus
Around Your Factory, Already Running
Five things a standalone plant spends its first year building. Here, they are already running:
- 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
- Dozens of daily bus routes, a medical center, controlled access
- Build-out and equipment yours to specify; utilities at cost
Case Studies
Manufacturers Growing at Roca Fuerte
These leaders asked the questions you are asking now. Their answers about Roca Fuerte matter more than ours.
“The city of Guaymas is unique, and Roca Fuerte is not only a manufacturing space here, it is an environment designed for manufacturing performance. Infrastructure, utilities, compliance, logistics and workforce all work together, and that level of coordination is not something you can repeat easily.”
Marco López, Vice President and General Manager, Intec Group
“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
“In Guaymas we do large machining on critical engine components, with a lot of critical equipment and critical processes, so the workforce has to perform, the facility has to respond, the support has to respond. Roca Fuerte gives us an environment where we can meet that standard every day, and we are growing very fast here.”
Enrique Vega, General Manager, Pursuit Aerospace
Campus Pillars
Everything You Need to Reach Your Potential in Guaymas
Predictable manufacturing in Guaymas takes reliable space, people, logistics and compliance. At Roca Fuerte, one partner runs all four. No patchwork of vendors.
Industrial Space
Move into a Class A building at Roca Fuerte, built for precision work and adapted to your process. Tetakawi maintains the building and the Campus around it, so the building is never your project.
Workforce
Set the roles and the standards, then run the plant. Tetakawi recruits the machinists this city trains, employs them, runs payroll and benefits, and holds the union agreement, so your managers run production, not HR.
Logistics
Bring materials in and ship product out with carriers you select, through our own 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 Guaymas.
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FAQs
What Manufacturers Ask Us About Roca Fuerte
The questions we get most often from manufacturers looking at Guaymas. If yours is not here, ask us.
Do we need to form our own entity to manufacture at Roca Fuerte?
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. The HR, import-export and EHS teams that handle your permits and border paperwork are based here on the Campus, and one project manager runs your setup across all of them.
Can we staff a plant in Guaymas and keep the people we train?
Yes.
Machinists and engineers are what this region builds, and the 5,500 people already working for manufacturers on this Campus are drawn from that pool.
Eighty-seven bus routes reach the Campus every day, and the job fairs we run draw candidates from across the Guaymas region.
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 Roca Fuerte right now?
Expanding.
New space comes online as we build, and companies here take it as they grow.
New construction here is on our standard footprint of about 35,000 square feet.
Tell us the process, the footprint it needs and when you need to be producing, and we will tell you what is coming online and when.
How do costs in Guaymas compare with the U.S. or a border city?
Lower than either, on direct labor.
Direct labor at this Campus starts at about $4.33 per hour fully fringed for unskilled positions, with semi-skilled roles from about $5.78 (at 17.5 pesos per dollar). Fully fringed means the wage plus the employer’s payroll taxes and benefits. Guaymas and Empalme are one labor market, so these wage figures hold at our Bella Vista Campus too.
For scale, the same roles in U.S. manufacturing start at about $28 an hour for unskilled positions and about $30 for semi-skilled roles, 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.
The Campus sits on Highway 15 at the north end of Guaymas, about 250 miles from the crossing. 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. The deep-water Port of Guaymas is nearby 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 Roca Fuerte is right for us?
Four steps, same as every Campus.
1. Get in touch. A conversation about your goals for Guaymas: 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.
