Our Story
Learn our story, leadership, and mission shaping manufacturing in Mexico.
Serving Manufacturers Across Demanding Industries
Whether your operation prioritizes scale, precision, or speed to market, Tetakawi provides the infrastructure and operating support needed to run your own factory in Mexico with confidence.
Our Ecosystem
A Campus Model Built Around Your Operation
Our Campus model adapts to your operation, whatever the industry. You run the factory. Tetakawi runs everything around it: industrial space, workforce, logistics and compliance, all under a shelter legal framework.
Your Product Stays Yours
You control production, process and quality. Your product, your tooling and your designs stay yours.
What a Campus Gives You
A move-in-ready building on a Campus that is already running, with recruiting, customs and permits handled around it.
Experience on Every Campus
One way of operating across five Campuses, run by the people who work there. Permits, payroll, customs and recruiting, handled by people who have done it for decades.
Industries We Serve
Built for Demanding Sectors
Choose your industry to see how the Campus model runs around it.
Testimonials
What Manufacturers Say
From aerospace and automotive to electronics and plastics, manufacturers describe in their own words what it is like to operate inside a Tetakawi Campus.
“All of our facilities make castings for the aerospace and defense industry, technical pieces with stringent quality requirements. At CPP’s Mazatlán facility we perform non-destructive testing, and the people who work on those castings carry a great responsibility to meet every customer specification.”
Jeremy Main, Senior Vice President, Consolidated Precision Products
“We produce fiber optic assemblies, used on the towers for cellular communication. When we started, we didn’t know anything about the production of fiber optics. It was great to see how Tetakawi was supporting us all the way as we were growing the operation. Right after our first month, we managed to ship the first products.”
Carlos Rivera, Plant Manager, HUBER+SUHNER
“We make a variety of products here, and mostly what we build are commercial aircraft components. If you fly commercially, that aircraft can have content from the Guaymas facility. As we added products and processes, we added the people and the machines to do the work.”
Brian Berich, Director of Operations, BAE Systems
“We produce sewn covers for the marine and power sport markets, protecting against dust, water and the sun. The workforce here is skilled, stable and motivated, and Tetakawi connects us with the workforce we need now and in the future, and with other suppliers in the region.”
Agustín Mendoza, Plant Manager, Commercial Sewing
“I lead the operation here in Guaymas, where we focus on plastic injection molding, and Intec has been in Mexico for more than twenty years. The workforce is committed and talented, and the big differentiator is low turnover. When you have the infrastructure and a great partner, you can make great things here.”
Marco López, Vice President and General Manager, Intec Group
“TE has been here since 1989 and has been evolving right along with Tetakawi. The key to this relationship is Tetakawi bringing in the talent and the human resources, and we bring in the technology and the products that need to be built here. That bond is what has kept us growing, on the talent this region has.”
Ricardo Gómez, Director of Operations, TE Connectivity
“We are here because we are the main retainers supplier in North America, and staying in Saltillo keeps us near the main OEMs in Mexico. Being inside the Manufacturing Campus gives us the opportunity to be a stable supplier, with low turnover and on-time deliveries.”
Mauricio García, Plant Manager, Gemini Group
“It is very easy to get hung up when you build a new factory, move a factory, or launch a new product for a customer, so speed of execution matters. You have a partner with a strong process orientation. This is how we build a plant, here is how our timeline works, here is when we need you to make decisions, here is when we have gate reviews.”
Jon Jensen, Manufacturing CEO, repeat Tetakawi client since 2001
Why Tetakawi
Built for Certainty,
Designed for Growth
Each Campus puts the building, the workforce, the permits and the operating services in one place, run by one partner. Your people run production.
Launch Faster
Move into a Campus that is up and running.
Operate Predictably
One partner, less for you to coordinate.
Grow on Your Terms
Add headcount, and space where the Campus has room.
FAQs
Questions Manufacturers Ask
The questions we get most often from manufacturers looking at Mexico.
Who owns the product, the process and the quality system?
You do.
Your product, your tooling, your process and your quality system stay in your name and under your control, and the plant runs to your work instructions.
Tetakawi recruits and administers the workforce as employer of record, runs the building and its utilities, and handles the Mexican side of customs and compliance around your operation. Tetakawi is not a contract manufacturer.
What does a Tetakawi Campus include?
A move-in-ready building on an established Campus, with the platform around it already running.
The workforce, recruited and employed by Tetakawi; import and export under Tetakawi’s IMMEX program, with Tetakawi as importer and exporter of record in Mexico and your company as importer of record entering the United States; and the Mexican permits and filings. Industrial space, workforce, logistics and compliance, all under a shelter legal framework. You run the factory.
That platform runs at the scale of the whole Campus, so your plant has the Mexican entity, HR and trade support around it without having to build its own.
Does the Campus model work for our industry?
It runs today around aerospace, automotive, electronics, medical device, plastics and sewn goods plants, and the same platform supports appliance, furniture and HVAC.
What changes by industry is the building fit-out, the skills we recruit and the way material moves. What does not change is who owns what.
Tell us the process and the footprint it needs, and we will tell you what a Campus can carry.
Where are the Campuses, and which work sits where?
Five Campuses in three states.
Roca Fuerte and Bella Vista in Guaymas and Empalme, Sonora, where aerospace, electronics and precision component work has concentrated. Rio Sonora in Hermosillo. Zapa in Saltillo, Coahuila, inside the automotive base that supplies the OEM plants there. And Mazatlán, Sinaloa, where finishing and inspection work on aerospace castings runs today.
Which one fits depends on your process, your material flow and where your customers are. That is the first thing we work through with you.
How is a Campus different from an industrial park or another shelter provider?
An industrial park gives you a building. A shelter takes the list off you. A Campus gives you both, on one property where the people, suppliers and infrastructure are already in place.
In a park, recruiting, payroll, customs entries, permits and employee transportation are still yours to assemble, in a country where your company has no legal presence. Several shelter providers operate in Mexico under the same IMMEX framework we do. That is the category, not the difference.
The difference is what is already in place on these five Campuses: manufacturers who have run plants here for ten and twenty years, the space, workforce, logistics and compliance built up around them, and people who have handled Mexican permits and border paperwork for decades. You will meet some of them when you visit.
What does it take to find out whether a Campus fits our operation?
Four steps, in order.
1. Get in touch. A conversation about what you are hoping to achieve in Mexico, and why now.
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, meet the people who would run your account, and talk with manufacturers already operating there.
4. Launch and grow. When you give the green light, the same team that helped you build the case guides the launch.
