Our Story
Learn our story, leadership, and mission shaping manufacturing in Mexico.
A Structured Path From Decision to Scale
Launching in Mexico is a series of clear steps, not one big leap. Tetakawi guides you through each one: you run your own factory, and we run everything around it.
Integrated Services
Why This Path Is Shorter
Going alone in Mexico adds steps: incorporate a legal entity, find or build a plant, secure permits, negotiate a union agreement, and set up HR, payroll, and customs from scratch. That path typically takes 8 to 18 months, and its costly surprises hide in the steps you find out about late.
On a Campus, Tetakawi has already done those steps or runs them for you. The months a standalone launch spends building its environment, you spend building product.
The Launch
Four Moves, One Plan
Deciding whether Mexico is right, and whether a Campus is the right way to do it, comes first. Once that is settled, every launch follows the same sequence, under one plan and one dedicated project manager.
1.
Choose Your Campus
You pick the region and building that fit your operation. The space, the teams, and the programs there are already up and running.
2.
Plan It Together
You bring your equipment, certifications, and timeline. We turn them into one plan with an owner and a date for every step.
3.
Build in Parallel
Your team sets up production. Ours recruits the roles you define, readies the building, and enrolls you in the programs already running.
4.
Launch, Then Grow
Production begins in as little as 30 days for a well-prepared operation, and within three to six months for most.
Campus Pillars
Ready Before You Arrive
The timeline is short because Tetakawi already runs everything around your factory. Here is what is standing on the Campus before you arrive:
Industrial Space
Your Class A building is standing, powered, and secured, move-in ready or adapted to your process, with Tetakawi’s facilities and maintenance teams already on site.
Workforce
Tetakawi is already recruiting, hiring, and running payroll on every Campus, along with on-site medical services and worker transportation, so hiring starts the moment you sign, not months later.
Logistics
Tetakawi already holds the Mexican import and export registrations your freight moves under, including certifications a new operation would spend years earning, so your first shipment moves on day one.
Compliance
You operate under Tetakawi’s IMMEX shelter program, without forming your own Mexican company, so the permits, filings, and environmental programs that stall a standalone launch are current before you arrive.
By the Numbers
The Difference, Measured
30 days
Move in and set up your own factory on a Campus in as little as 30 days.
Up to 30%
Lower overhead than a standalone operation of your own in Mexico.
40+ years
Helping foreign manufacturers launch, operate and grow in Mexico.
Industries
Proven Across Industries
From aerospace and automotive to medical devices and electronics, manufacturers across industries rely on Tetakawi’s Manufacturing Campuses to launch, operate, and grow in Mexico.
Testimonials
Our Model, in Their Words
These leaders run their own factories on our Campuses, and they weighed the same choice you’re weighing now.
“Say Manufacturing Campus and people picture a building. What came with it was the whole Tetakawi infrastructure: a support group for whatever pops up, and an execution group that takes the actions required to make a move to Mexico instead of pointing us toward them. They do the work.”
Jeremy Main, Senior Vice President, Consolidated Precision Products
“Tetakawi has a very experienced compliance department, and they know every single piece of the process you need to go through in order to comply with the Mexican regulations. They guided us through the whole process. They were working closely with the government, they did all the paperwork for us, and they got all the licenses and permits.”
Carlos Rivera, Plant Manager, HUBER+SUHNER
“Because Tetakawi removes the complexity, I dedicate more time for developing the people. Instead of constantly reacting to other external factors, Tetakawi covers all of that. These environments allow leaders like myself to focus on people, the business, the customer and bring in more business.”
Marco López, Vice President and General Manager, Intec Group
“Pick up the phone and somebody answers. Day to day I deal with the Tetakawi HR team, who are really good people and very knowledgeable, and I can call the director of the campus our plant sits on just as easily. I can call basically anybody, in any capacity, with any problem I have. We haven’t had an issue we couldn’t solve together.”
Brian Berich, Director of Operations, BAE Systems
“Tetakawi handles everything about the buildings, the facilities, the electricity and the maintenance, and that facilitates our daily operations. Whenever there’s an empty building, they come to us and say, this one is for you, you can grow. So we have the space to grow.”
Ricardo Gómez, Director of Operations, TE Connectivity
“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
How to Get Started
1.
Get in Touch
Talk with our team about your goals for manufacturing in Mexico.
2.
Measure ROI
Model the costs, risks, and tradeoffs for your operation.
3.
Site Visit
Walk the site and see the four pillars in action around real client operations.
4.
Launch and Grow
Move forward with a proven plan to launch and grow.
Your path to predictable manufacturing in Mexico starts with a conversation.
