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Tetakawi’s Mazatlán Manufacturing Campus has everything you need to launch, operate and grow your own factory in Mexico. A workforce that is not yet spoken for.
Overview
You run your own factory, your process and your quality. Tetakawi runs everything around it. In Mazatlán that environment is new, and it is running the same way it runs everywhere else.
Total Land: 100 acres, laid out for phased growth
Planned Industrial Space: Up to 3M sq ft across phased development
Availability: Move-in-ready 36,000 sq ft Class A building now, plus available lots, with new construction in approximately six months
Electrical Power: 15 MVA planned; 4 MVA available today
Natural Gas: Tell us your load and we will confirm it
Water: On-site treatment and storage; tell us what your process needs and we will confirm it
Security: Controlled Campus access with 24-hour monitoring
Airport: Mazatlán International Airport under a mile away
Port: Deep-water Port of Mazatlán 15 miles away
U.S. Border Access: Mazatlán-Durango corridor to the Texas border, about 700 miles; Tetakawi cross-dock in McAllen, TX
Labor Market: 500,000+ people within 30 miles, median age 31
Talent Pipeline: 29,700+ students across 29 universities and trade schools, 5,600+ graduates a year
Hiring Speed: Most roles filled in one to two weeks; roles that turn on a certification run longer
Employee Transportation: Daily routes to the Campus, added as headcount grows
IMMEX shelter program; ISO 9001 quality management systems
Why Mazatlán
Mazatlán, on Mexico’s Pacific coast, is a port city with universities, an international airport and an industrial base that is only now forming.
21 universities and trade schools around Mazatlán hold more than 29,000 students, studying the trades and engineering your plant needs.
Mazatlán is a city people choose rather than tolerate: beaches, a downtown with a life of its own, and a place worth moving a family to.
Direct flights from U.S. and Canadian cities land a mile from the Campus, and a deep-water port nearby takes freight in from Asia and Europe.
Statistics
Students in the local talent pipeline.
Lower direct labor cost than in the U.S.
Of formal jobs are in manufacturing.
On Campus
With Tetakawi you walk into a turnkey operating environment, run from the Campus itself, with HR inside your building:
Case Studies
CPP asked the questions you are asking now. Their answers about Mazatlán matter more than ours.
Campus Pillars
More than just shelter services in Mazatlán. Tetakawi runs these four on the Campus itself, with the teams behind them a walk from your floor.
Move into a Class A building at the Mazatlán Campus, ready to run or adapted to your process. Tetakawi maintains the base building and the Campus around it.
Set the roles and the standards, then run the plant. Tetakawi recruits and employs the people in Mazatlán, runs payroll and benefits, and holds the union agreement, so your managers run production, not HR.
Move freight on carriers you select, or consolidated through our cross-dock in McAllen. Tetakawi holds the Mexican import and export permits, so your team moves product, not paperwork.
Operate under Tetakawi’s IMMEX shelter program, without forming your own Mexican company. Tetakawi’s entity holds the registrations and the administration, while you run the plant in Mazatlán.
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FAQs
The questions we get most often from manufacturers looking at Mazatlán. If yours is not here, ask us.
No.
Your operation runs inside Tetakawi’s Mexican entity under our IMMEX shelter framework. That entity employs your workforce, holds the import and export registrations, and is the one Mexico registers, audits and inspects. You run your plant in a building on the Campus and direct your own production. Tetakawi has run Campuses in Mexico since 1986.
Tetakawi also runs the property. The HR and operational teams that would set your operation up sit here, under a mile from the airport, running the same systems Tetakawi runs at its other Campuses.
Yes.
Manufacturing is only about 13.5 percent of Mazatlán’s formal workforce, so fewer employers here bid for the same operators and technicians, and 5,600 or more students graduate into that market every year.
Daily routes run to the Campus and we add routes as headcount grows, so we can present candidates from across the metro.
You give us the job descriptions and the hiring plan. We recruit and screen, present the candidates who fit, and you choose. On your instruction we make the offer, and Tetakawi employs them and runs the payroll. We recommend pay from what the same jobs already earn around the Campus. HR, transport and labor compliance are Tetakawi’s from there.
Yes.
A move-in-ready 36,000-square-foot Class A building is open now, plus lots for new construction, and the master plan adds space in the same increments as you grow.
Because the building is already standing, your schedule from signing is set by your build-out and equipment lead times. Availability moves, so check with us before you build a timeline around it.
Tell us the footprint you need and when you need to be producing, and we will tell you whether it is the standing building or new construction.
Lower than either, on direct labor.
Direct labor at this Campus starts at about $4.37 per hour fully fringed for unskilled positions, with machinists from about $6.10 and CNC machinists from about $7.86 (at 17.5 pesos per dollar). Fully fringed means the wage plus the employer’s payroll taxes and benefits.
For scale, the same roles in U.S. manufacturing start at about $28 an hour for unskilled positions and about $35 for machinists, wages plus benefits (our calculation from BLS 2025 wage and 2026 benefit data).
Tell us what you are planning, and we are happy to run the numbers with you.
Three ways out.
By road, the Campus sits on the Mazatlán-Durango corridor to the Texas border, about 700 miles. Your freight moves north under Tetakawi’s Mexican export programs and is received, staged and consolidated at our own cross-dock in McAllen, where Mexican and U.S. carriers hand off and partial loads are combined for the U.S. leg. By sea, the deep-water Port of Mazatlán, 15 miles away, takes ships from Asia, Europe and South America. By air, the international airport is under a mile from the gate.
In Mexico, Tetakawi is the importer and exporter of record; entering the United States, your company is. A licensed Mexican broker files the entries under our programs, and your U.S. broker files from the export documentation and part-level data our team helps prepare.
Four steps, same as every Campus.
1. Get in touch. A conversation about your goals for Mazatlán: volumes, processes, headcount and timing.
2. Measure ROI. We build the business case with you: the full cost of running your operation on this Campus, the risks and the trade-offs. If another Campus fits better, we build that one too.
3. Site visit. Walk the Campus, meet the people who would run your account, and talk with manufacturers already producing here.
4. Launch and grow. When you give the green light, the same team that helped you build the case guides the launch, and the people who run the Campus are a phone call or a short walk away.