Our Story
Learn our story, leadership, and mission shaping manufacturing in Mexico.
Industrial Space for Manufacturing Operations in Mexico
Launch in a building Tetakawi delivers, maintains and expands, on a Manufacturing Campus where space, workforce, logistics and compliance run as one.
The Problem
Why Industrial Real Estate Delays Production
Finding industrial space in Mexico is not the hard part. Turning that space into a production-ready factory is, because utilities, permits, fit-out, and equipment requirements each run on their own timeline.
The Clock Before Production
Bare land is the slowest way in. A standalone start typically takes eight to eighteen months, because permits and utilities each run on their own clock.
Infrastructure You Must Contract
A bare lot, or an existing building, leaves the fit-out to you. You contract the power capacity, wait on transformers, and chase the operating licenses.
Footprint Locked on Day One
You size a standalone site on day one. Guess small, and growth stops. Guess big, and you pay for space you don’t use. The site decided, not you.
Our Solution
A Building That Is Already Standing
A building already standing, on a Campus where the power, the water and the Mexican entity are already running, and most operations go from decision to production in three to six months. You control production, process and quality. The Campus stays Tetakawi’s to run.
Choosing the Building, or Building It
Before you sign, you see which of the five Campuses have a building available and what each one carries. Tell us your process, your equipment and where you are headed, and we match one to it. If it fits as it stands, clients have gotten started in as little as 30 days. If your process needs its own building, we build it in six months.
Move-In-Ready Class A Buildings
Campus buildings are Class A and built for manufacturing: a polished six-inch concrete slab, power, water and dock access delivered, and the offices and lighting already in. On most Campuses the standard building is about 35,000 square feet, and new construction goes up to the same specification and in the same size.
Improvements Your Process Needs
A move-in-ready building can still be adapted. Where your process needs more than the standard building carries, power drops, process utilities, clean areas or specialized cooling, the scope is agreed before you sign and quoted at kickoff. What you add for your process is yours to define and stays yours, at your cost.
Room to Grow on Campus
Growth stays on the same Campus. Where a Campus has room you take another building, and where you need more, Tetakawi builds on the Campus. New buildings go up to the same specification, with the adaptations agreed before ground breaks. The location decision stays made, and the entity stays the same.
The Base Building, Kept Up by Tetakawi
After you move in, the base building stays Tetakawi’s to maintain, with an engineering and maintenance team on the Campus, and common areas and Campus security are Tetakawi’s as well. Your plant manager does not build a maintenance department in Mexico; what they deal with is production.
Benefits
Proven Infrastructure on a Campus Built to Grow
Faster Production Startup
Production starts sooner because the building, the utilities and the Mexican entity are already standing before you arrive.
- Three to six months from deciding on Mexico to producing in Mexico
- Utilities delivered to the building and managed at Campus level
- A specification sheet you can hold against your connected load before you commit
- An improvement scope and a schedule agreed before anything is signed
A More Stable Operating Environment
The building keeps working after you move in, because the base building stays Tetakawi’s to maintain.
- The base building maintained by a team on the Campus
- One accountable party for the building and the Campus around it
- Common areas and Campus security run by Tetakawi
- Expansion without a second site selection
Onboarding
From Decision to the First Day on Site
By the time you sign, the due diligence is done: you have walked the Campus and seen what it will cost to run there. From there it is the same playbook on every Campus: a kickoff, one launch plan and one Tetakawi project lead, with your building as one part of it.
1.
Sign
One U.S.-based agreement names your project lead and your date. The building you chose goes into one launch plan.
2.
Launch
You send the requirements and the layout. Improvements are built while hiring and filings run alongside, and production begins.
3.
Operate
The building and the Campus stay Tetakawi’s to maintain, with an engineering team on site. Your plant manager runs production.
4.
Grow
Where the Campus has room you take the next building, or Tetakawi builds it. The same entity and the same team carry the expansion.
Testimonials
Industrial Space in Practice
Here is how manufacturers describe it, from the fit of the building to the environment around it.
“The building Tetakawi provided wasn’t just an open shell of a box. We worked with Tetakawi to get all of the utilities in the right places for the special equipment we wanted to install, and to tailor the building to what we needed for our specialized processes. That campus design is the structure behind everything we do in Mexico.”
Jeremy Main, Senior Vice President, Consolidated Precision Products
“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
“Tetakawi has been a big support with a turnkey building built to an aerospace standard: good foundations for big machines and critical equipment. We have electricity and water available, with redundancy on many of the things that help us run operations properly.”
Enrique Vega, General Manager, Pursuit Aerospace
“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
The Campus Model
Predictability Through Integration
On a Tetakawi Campus, space runs on the same platform as workforce, logistics and compliance, carried by on-site teams. You run your own factory, and Tetakawi runs the Campus around it.
How the launch and the building are run day to day: Start-Up Services and Facilities Management.
Launch Faster
Move into an operating environment that is already running.
Operate Predictably
Keep your team focused on production, with on-site support.
Grow on Your Terms
Scale space, people, and capacity to match demand.
Integrated Services
The Integrated Services Behind Every Campus
Our on-site teams help you launch your operation, keep your building running, employ and pay your workforce, move your materials across the border, buy what your plant consumes, and keep your permits, filings and registrations current.
FAQs
Industrial Space in Mexico FAQs
The questions we get most often from manufacturers looking at Mexico.
What is already in place when we sign?
The building, the utilities and the entity your plant operates inside.
The building is standing, power, water and dock access are delivered, and the Mexican entity your plant operates inside is registered and filing, so production starts months sooner than on a site you build out yourself.
How long until we are producing?
Most operations go from deciding on Mexico to producing in Mexico in three to six months, and we have helped clients get started in as little as 30 days.
Your scope sets the date: a building that carries your process as it stands moves faster than one that needs power drops, clean areas or specialized cooling.
Some processes do not fit an existing building, and then a new one is the better answer. A new building on a Campus takes six months.
What do we sign, and what stays ours?
One U.S.-based contract with Tetakawi, covering the space and the services around it.
The building and the Campus around it stay Tetakawi’s to run, and there is no Mexican company for you to form. The line between the base building and what you add for your process is drawn before you sign.
You keep full control of your equipment, your process, production, quality and your IP.
What does the space cost us, and what is extra?
Three things you will be budgeting for: the space, the improvements you scope, and what you consume.
Electricity and water are billed on what you use. What you add for your process is on your side of the line, at your cost.
Before you commit, you see the full cost of running your operation on a Campus, line by line. Operations on a Campus run with up to 30% less overhead than a standalone.
How do we start?
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.
3. Site visit. Walk the Campus, meet the people who would run your account, talk with manufacturers already operating there, and see the buildings that could carry your process.
4. Launch and grow. When you give the green light, the same team that helped you build the case guides the launch.
