Our Story
Learn our story, leadership, and mission shaping manufacturing in Mexico.
Aerospace Manufacturing in Mexico, Simplified
Tetakawi’s Manufacturing Campus model lets aerospace manufacturers operate their own plant in Mexico, with move-in-ready space, skilled talent, and trade programs already in place. Your plant, your people, and your quality system stay yours. Tetakawi runs the operating platform around them.
The Problem
Precision Demands Leave No Margin for Instability
Aerospace manufacturers are being asked to add capacity without giving up control of quality, delivery, or customer approvals. The constraint is often not the work itself. It is finding the people and the operating environment to run that work consistently.
Mexico has the machinists and the sector around them. But running a plant there takes more than industrial space. Whatever your plant runs, machining, non-destructive testing, welding, assembly or surface treatment, it needs three things:
- Labor recruited, trained, and administered
- Logistics and customs that run on schedule
- Compliance records that hold up in an 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 Your Plant
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.
Recruit the Skills Your Program Needs
Tetakawi recruits machinists, inspectors, assemblers, welders, and electrical technicians, depending on what your operation runs. You set the skill bar, and hiring continues after launch.
Protect What Your Certifications Depend On
You control quality, certifications, and customer approvals. Tetakawi manages the facility and operating environment around your plant: utilities, secure grounds, and controlled material flow.
Keep Material Moving Across the Border
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
Aerospace in Mexico, and Our Role in It
368
Aerospace manufacturers in Mexico
$10.7B
Annual aerospace exports from Mexico
15+
Aerospace manufacturers on our Campuses
Our Model
A Campus Model Built for the Aerospace Industry
Aerospace needs an operating environment that protects certifications, quality and delivery across long programs. The Campus model is built for that. You run the plant.
- Move-in-ready industrial space for precision machining, assembly, and special processes
- Recruiting built around aerospace skills, with a training center at Roca Fuerte and training partners in Mazatlán
- 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 Aerospace Manufacturers Say
Aerospace manufacturers who run their own plants on Tetakawi Campuses, in their own words.
“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
“Mexico is one of the best places to manufacture engine components, not only because of low cost but because of capability. You cannot imagine the kind of professionalism people have here: the technical knowledge, the knowledge about aerospace specifications and the requirements of the customers. Great team, great people and great culture.”
Enrique Vega, General Manager, Pursuit Aerospace
“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
FAQs
Questions Aerospace Manufacturers Ask
The questions we get most often from aerospace manufacturers looking at Mexico.
Who holds the approvals if I manufacture in Mexico?
You do.
Your quality system, certifications and customer approvals stay in your name, and the plant in Mexico runs under your quality system. Tetakawi holds none of them. Tetakawi is not a contract manufacturer.
What makes Mexico viable for aerospace manufacturing?
The skills are here, and the sector has grown around them.
Mexico has the machinists, inspectors and technicians for precision machining, non-destructive testing, welding, assembly and wiring. The sector grew from 100 manufacturing firms in 2004 to 368 by mid-2023, with $10.7 billion in aerospace exports in 2024, on U.S. International Trade Administration figures.
What aerospace products are manufactured in Mexico?
Four kinds of work, broadly.
Precision components: machining and metal fabrication for engine and structural parts. Electrical and electromechanical: wire harnesses, electrical assemblies, and avionics-related subassemblies. Complex assembly: interiors, structures, and mechanical subassemblies. And manufacturing that depends on controlled special processes, where a customer approval governs the process as tightly as the part.
What is the Guaymas aerospace cluster known for?
Engine and turbine components, with the special-process suppliers around them.
The U.S. International Trade Administration highlights five major aerospace clusters: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Querétaro and Nuevo León. Guaymas, in Sonora, is one of Mexico’s most aerospace-specialized manufacturing cities, with local suppliers for heat treatment and non-destructive testing. Roca Fuerte Campus sits in that corridor, and four further Campuses run in Empalme, Hermosillo, Saltillo and Mazatlán.
Why should aerospace 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 aerospace work, that means the skilled people and the building are in place, and your approvals 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 aerospace 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.
