Our Story
Learn our story, leadership, and mission shaping manufacturing in Mexico.
Electronics Manufacturing in Mexico, Simplified
Tetakawi’s Manufacturing Campus model lets electronics manufacturers operate their own plant in Mexico, with move-in-ready space, a workforce recruited for assembly and test, and trade programs already in place. Your plant, your people, and your process stay yours. Tetakawi runs the operating platform around them.
The Problem
Yield Is Built by People Who Stay
Electronics runs on yield, and yield is built by trained hands. A harness, a board, a fiber assembly, a tested unit: each one depends on operators who have done the work enough times to do it the same way twice. Losing trained hands breaks that, and rehiring restarts it.
Mexico has the trained hands electronics runs on. But running a plant there takes more than industrial space. Whatever your plant runs, harness and cable assembly, board-level work, box build or test, it needs three things:
- A workforce that stays long enough to be trained
- Customs and trade filings that hold to a delivery date
- Traceability records that survive a customer audit
You can build all that from scratch, or you can operate inside a Tetakawi Campus.
| Traditional Site Selection | Tetakawi Campus Model |
|---|---|
| Find a building and fit it out yourself | Move-in-ready space on an established Campus |
| Build HR, payroll, and labor systems from scratch | Recruiting, payroll, and benefits administered for your plant |
| Staff a ramp with no local recruiting network | Recruiters already working the market before you arrive |
| Coordinate recruiters, customs brokers, and advisors on your own | One partner for recruiting, customs, and administration |
| Establish your own Mexican entity, IMMEX, and customs process | Import and export in Mexico under Tetakawi’s IMMEX authorization |
| Manage a patchwork of vendors and their contracts | One U.S.-based agreement, with the work run on site |
Our Approach
What Runs Around a Yield-Driven Line
Every Campus sits in a region with an established manufacturing workforce. Three things run around your operation: the people, the building, and the movement of material across the border.
Staff the Line for Yield
Tetakawi recruits operators, technicians, and inspectors, and keeps hiring as your volumes climb. Transport and on-site medical are part of keeping them. You set the requirements and the standard for every role.
Protect the Process That Is Yours
Your process, your test methods, your certifications, your IP. Tetakawi runs the facility around them: utilities brought to the building, secure grounds, and controlled, traceable material flow.
Keep Components Moving to the Line
In Mexico, Tetakawi is the importer and exporter of record; entering the United States, your company is. Tetakawi keeps the customs and inventory record, and a licensed Mexican broker files each entry.
Statistics
Electronics in Mexico Today
996
Electronics plants in Mexico
455
Of those with more than 100 employees
$113B
Annual electrical and electronics exports
Our Model
A Campus Model Built for Electronics Production
Electronics turns on throughput, yield and disciplined execution. The Campus model can lower overhead by up to about 30% against a standalone plant. You run the plant.
- Move-in-ready space for assembly, test, and controlled work areas
- Recruiting pipeline for operators, technicians, and inspectors
- Material enters under Tetakawi’s IMMEX authorization, with Tetakawi as importer and exporter of record
- Payroll, social security contributions, permits and the Mexican entity’s tax filings handled by Tetakawi
Testimonials
What Electronics Manufacturers Say
Electronics manufacturers who run their own plants on Tetakawi Campuses, in their own words.
“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
“Sonora has great talent. All the skills that can be developed here are amazing. Sometimes people assume that because we’re in Mexico it’s not the right talent, but the talent is here in Sonora, and we can compete at any level. The technical schools and universities in the region give us a pipeline of future engineers and technicians.”
Ricardo Gómez, Director of Operations, TE Connectivity
“We started out as a wire and harness facility, and that was mainly what we did. Then slowly but surely we kept adding different products and different processes, and as we increased the complexity we added the people and the machines to do the work. We started with one building and now we’re in three.”
Brian Berich, Director of Operations, BAE Systems
FAQs
Questions Electronics Manufacturers Ask
The questions we get most often from electronics manufacturers looking at Mexico.
Who owns the process and IP if I manufacture in Mexico?
You do.
Your process, your test methods, your certifications and the IP behind what you build stay in your name, and the plant in Mexico runs under your quality system. Tetakawi is not a contract manufacturer.
How do tariffs affect electronics manufacturing in Mexico?
Most of it enters under USMCA without ordinary duty. Two exceptions matter.
That holds for electronics that qualify as originating. Some electrical components sit on the Section 232 metals list, where USMCA origin does not help, and the Section 232 action on semiconductors reaches a defined set of chips and the computers built around them. Which of those touches your product is a classification question, and as part of our due diligence, we help you work it out.
What electronics are manufactured in Mexico?
Four kinds of work, broadly.
Interconnect: wire harness, cable assembly, connectors, and fiber optic assemblies. Board level: PCB assembly, surface mount, and box build. Power and control: power systems, drives, and industrial controls. And test, from in-circuit through functional and environmental. Much of the work sits with EMS providers and component suppliers rather than the brand owners.
Where is electronics manufacturing concentrated in Mexico?
Along the northern border and in Jalisco.
On INEGI’s 2025 export figures Chihuahua leads, followed by Jalisco, Baja California, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, and most of the world’s largest EMS providers operate plants in Mexico. Tetakawi Campuses have hosted wire harness, cable and fiber optic assembly for decades, so the process base is already here. Five Campuses operate, in Guaymas, Empalme, Hermosillo, Saltillo and Mazatlán, and which one fits depends on your product mix, your material flow, and where your customers are.
Why should electronics manufacturers consider a Tetakawi Campus?
A Tetakawi Manufacturing Campus is a turnkey operating environment: you run your own factory, and Tetakawi runs everything around it.
You keep full control of production, quality and your IP. Tetakawi is not a contract manufacturer.
Tetakawi provides the building, the workforce, the import and export operation, and the Mexican entity with its permits and registrations.
For electronics work, that means trained operators are recruited and kept, and your process and records stay yours.
How can Tetakawi help us evaluate expanding into Mexico?
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 electronics 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.
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.
