MEXICO · TIJUANA
Established 2017 as Tutamen's Maquiladora in Tijuana. Today: four specialised facilities delivering plastic injection, metal fabrication, final assembly and test, and polymer reclamation — USMCA "Made in Mexico", minutes from the US border.
OVERVIEW
Tijuana is Tutamen's North American manufacturing anchor. Sited as a Maquiladora inside a Free Trade Zone, with USMCA-qualified "Made in Mexico" origin and a US warehouse minutes across the border, this is where customers go when the answer to where should we build this? needs to be not China, not behind a tariff, not far from our team.
The current footprint is four specialised plants — injection, extrusion, assembly, warehouse — totalling ~95,000 sq ft. Medical devices are 78% of Mexico's business and 18% of global Tutamen revenue. The site holds ISO 13485 and operates ISO 7–8 cleanrooms for medical-device assembly; named 510(k)-cleared products are manufactured here daily.
Next: all four plants are consolidating into a new 108,000 sq ft three-floor facility on 158,000 sq ft of purchased land near the Otay border crossing, with die-casting added to the stack. Construction underway; target completion Q2 2027.
THE FOUR PLANTS
PLANT 01 · 27,000 sq ft
23 Toshiba and Welltec injection machines spanning 90 to 500 tonnes — 4× 90t, 1× 130t, 1× 150t, 2× 160t, 4× 190t, 1× 250t, 2× 260t, 1× 320t, 4× 450t. All cells equipped with robots and conveyor belts. Portable cleanrooms deployed as programme spec requires. Pantone colour matching and masterbatch creation in-house.
PLANT 02 · 20,000 sq ft
A complete sheet-metal cell: 2× CNC, turret punch, fibre-optic laser, hydraulic press, press-brake bending, laser spot welding, NCT, and a 5-axis CNC router. Fixture creation in-house. Co-located with the assembly plant so machined and stamped parts flow straight into final build.
PLANT 03 · 54,000 sq ft
The largest of the four plants and the one customers see most. Sub-assembly through final pack — including ISO Class 7–8 cleanrooms for medical-device build and electrode production. Pad print, silk screen, hot foil, and heat transfer all live on the assembly floor; cut-and-sew and electronic sub-assembly fold into the line where the product calls for it.
PLANT 04 · 3,800 sq ft
Closes the loop on the injection plant. In-house plastic reconstitution and extrusion turn regrind and trim into usable feedstock; thermoforming runs on the same floor for light-gauge enclosures, trays, and packaging. A sustainability lever that few contract manufacturers of this scale offer in-house.
Plus a 10,000 sq ft warehouse for finished-goods staging and US-border cross-dock logistics.
MEDICAL DEVICE SPECIALISATION
78% of Tijuana's business is medical devices. FDA-registered manufacturer, ISO 13485-certified, with ISO 7–8 cleanrooms for assembly and established programmes for 510(k)-cleared products. PPAP, FMEA, control plans, Cp/Cpk, CAPA, Kaizen / Lean Six Sigma — running daily on multi-year OEM contracts.
NMES / TENS muscle-stimulation devices. ManaFlexx 2.
Tubeless IPC for DVT prevention. ManaMed PlasmaFlow.
Surgical bone drills. Paragon Medical.
Rapid bedside EEG / seizure monitoring. Ceribell EEG.
119 medical-grade LEDs, dual-wavelength. REVIAN Red.
Environmental control systems. Lotus Kit / Lotus Ring.
CONSOLIDATION · IN PROGRESS
158,000 sq ft of land purchased near the Otay border crossing. A new 108,000 sq ft, three-floor facility is under construction to consolidate all four current plants into one operation — with die-casting added to the stack and the cleanroom footprint expanded. $12M investment.
FACILITY
Source images available in Mexico Medical PDF + Tutamen Profile deck (s12–s18)
Tijuana has the cleanrooms, the certifications, and the track record. Talk to our engineers about onboarding a new device line — or about consolidating into the new Otay building.
