Tihueca
| Industry | Manufacturing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1977 |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 6 |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Amusement rides, roller coasters, transportation |
| Divisions | Tihueca Rides AMAA (Amusement Manufacturers Association of Aztaco) |
| Subsidiaries | Tihueca Rides International |
The Tihueca Consortium is a designer-manufacturer partnership in the amusement park industry best known for the development and production of roller coasters and other thrill rides. It offers its services to amusement parks and themed resorts around the world through international offices, one on each continent, with the revenue generated from sales of its signature rides and contracts for new custom built installations accounting for most of the company's revenue. In recent decades, Tihueca has diversified with its entrance into transportation contracting by applying its ride-building expertise to design and construct streetcar, monorail and aerial tramway systems for public and private transportation services. The name associated with the business is a syllabic initialism for Ticemetzalan Huetzcani Callahma, Nahuatl for "International Amusement Engineers".
The main business of the Tihueca consortium is the design and construction of various types of rides for amusement parks. Some installations are clones of a previous Tihueca design, purposefully contracted by the client to reduce the price tag of development costs and as a risk mitigation strategy to reduce the potential for incidents by copying a design with a good safety record. However, the majority of Tiheuca's rides are commissioned new by a specific park to fit a theme and are custom built to the local topography and conditions of a particular installation site, making most of the rides designed and installed by the company entirely unique designs with only one exemplar. The company offers ongoing maintenance services to its clients at a reduced rate in order to foster good business relations and motivate clients to do repeat business with the company.