So often in American business, companies sacrifice quality and much more to potentially save money producing products overseas. But that isn’t the case for Lux Solar, which — in addition to revolutionizing in-road lighting — is a homegrown company.
At the core of the company is Wael “Maj” Majdalawi, PE, PTOE, who has decades of experience as a traffic engineer. Understanding some of the cost benefits of manufacturing products overseas, Maj and Lux Solar began working with offshore distributors, but they quickly realized the negatives far outweighed the positives.
Now, Lux Solar is completely U.S.-based, from its employees to its manufacturing to its product installation. The groundbreaking in-road lights use technology that’s completely built and shipped from American factories.
Chief among the benefits of keeping manufacturing in the country is power over quality control. In order for Lux Solar to accomplish its mission of “saving lives we’ll never meet,” it needs to know all of its products are up to the standards it and its buyers expect. Having operations and manufacturing just a few hours away allows the business to do just that.
Keeping things close to home also gives Lux Solar the opportunity to more readily customize products for consumers and avoid bulk inventory. Whether it’s changing colors of lights or differentiating the number of lights needed, Lux Solar can order in-road lights based on the needs of each customer for whom it’s fulfilling an order.
This ability to control quality, inventory and customization is all spearheaded by excellent communication between Lux Solar and its manufacturers and distributors. After working with overseas businesses for the first generation of products, Maj knew he couldn’t do it again. His company had to deal with bulk stock, faced quality issues that weren’t easily handled and wasn’t easily able to make modifications to the products because of the land barrier.
Just take it from Village of Palmetto Bay, Florida, Director of Public Services Dionisio F. Torres, PE, who had an outstanding review for Lux Solar’s products. “Since its installation, we’ve had no failures or need for maintenance. The Lux system has been reliable, maintenance-free and highly visible. The condition of the Lux system as of the date of this letter remains in excellent condition.”
With everything American-built and shipped, Maj and the folks at Lux Solar knew communicating and working with the companies that help them fulfill orders would be far more effective and simple.
Thanks to this strong relationship between the company and its partners, Lux Solar is able to get orders installed far more efficiently. At the forefront of the outsourced process is a team of fully trained contractors, who know the operation like the back of their hand.
Shipping, often a very time-consuming aspect of the process, is much less so with everything stationed in the U.S. With the full process taking 2-3 months maximum, and orders having been fulfilled in as little as two weeks, Lux Solar is setting a high standard for every other brand in the traffic engineering industry.
As Maj aptly put, “Engineering is about attention to detail.” And with Lux Solar’s Made in the USA approach, no stone goes unturned, which makes saving lives a more realistic goal as each day passes.
If you want to find out more about the company, its aim to save lives and its zero-crash goal, visit its website. You can also find more about the two different types of in-road lights, which deliver clear messages to drivers better than any other solution. You can also follow Lux Solar on Instagram. Reach out to your Local Government today to find out how you can get in-road lights in your community.