What is a Maquiladora?

The word maquiladora originated from the Spanish word maquila, which was the payment that millers collected for processing grain in colonial Mexico. A current day maquiladora is a factory or assembly facility that takes advantage of the open trade partnerships between Mexico and the United States.

Due to treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, maquiladoras can import material and equipment across the border of Mexico and the United States without the payment of duties or tariffs. This allows foreign corporations the ability to save millions of dollars annually by utilizing Mexico's inexpensive labor market for many of their manufacturing needs.

Mexican maquiladora's can be completely foreign-owned, and usually focus primarily on labor-intensive processes such as assembly. Most maquiladora's are located right along the United States-Mexico border, although some of the larger more specialized facilities have begin to branch out throughout the rest of Mexico.


Shelter Manufacturing in Baja Mexico

The shelter plan is the fastest way to start manufacturing in Mexico. In fact the large majority of operations start within a mere 90 days. However, depending on your particular needs, you could even begin production in as little as one week!

Under the shelter scenario, you provide the equipment, tooling, technical expertise, quality control, and management of the operation while we take care of hiring, firing, payroll, permits, licenses, taxes, accounting, and other legal and staffing matters.

The shelter plan allows you the greatest amount of control over your product as you oversee the operation while we handle the personnel and legal considerations. Under the shelter plan, we essentially sell you inexpensive labor and take care of all of the logistics required to manufacture your product in Mexico.

Is your operation labor intense?

Would you like to save money?

Have you considered Mexico’s labor market?

Our Company is Far Horizons Mexico. We moved to Tecate, Baja California Mexico from Orange County California 35 years ago to take advantage of lower labor costs.

In the intervening years we have worked for many major companies from the United States, Canada and Europe. We have space available for all your needs, and we are located on 10 fenced and secure acres of land. For the past 10 years we have run a 70 man shop fabricating acrylic items for U.S. companies.

We also have experience in injection molding, vacuum forming, sewing, all types of packaging, assembly and more. In fact with your technical assistance we believe we can save you dollars on just about any process.

We can produce and warehouse in Tecate Mexico, then ship via Common Carrier from U.S. Customs House Broker in Tecate CA, USA.

Far Horizons is family owned and operated, as well as being one of the oldest maquiladoras in Mexico. We enjoy an excellent reputation with both the government and local labor pool.

If you feel a trouble free, economic relationship would benefit your company, feel free to contact us.