News and Press Releases

 January 23, 2012

Luxon Engineering Changes Location

January 2012 marks not only the beginning of our 6th year of business, but also a change in location. We have moved to the Gaslamp Quarter of downtown San Diego. This new, centralized location allows for expansion and is located in one of the busier and exciting areas of San Diego.    Read More

 June 23, 2011

Altair HyperWorks Technology Conference

Billy Wight, President of Luxon Engineering, will present "Topology Optimization of Racecar Suspension Uprights" at the Altair Engineering HyperWorks Technology Conference Thursday June, 23 at 1:15pm EST.    Read More

 May 5, 2011

Luxon Engineering Adds CFD Capabilities

The addition of Acusim to the Altair HyperWorks suite brings robust and powerful computational fluid dynamics solutions to the Luxon Engineering team allowing for faster and more efficient product development.    Read More

 August 12, 2010

MaxGrip Systems Releases Prosthetic Attachments

Luxon Engineering assisted MaxGrip Systems in the design of their prosthetic weight lifting attachments. The engineers at Luxon worked closely with the product development team at MaxGrip to achieve a manufacturable solution and acted as a manufacturing liaison during the first production runs.    Read More

 October 10-12, 2008

2008 SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Luxon Engineering designed parts swept the podium in Saturdays DSR event and took another championship win along with second place in Sunday's CSR event. J.R. Osborne drove the Luxon Engineering equipped Stohr car to victory on both days.    Read More

 September 25, 2008

"Topology Optimization of Racecar Suspension Uprights"

Billy Wight, President of Luxon Engineering, presented at the ASME event, "An Introduction to Optimization in Industry". The presentation focused on the design and development of the Stohr Cars optimized uprights and the use of Altair HyperWorks optimization software.    Read More

 March 14, 2008

Luxon Engineering Featured in Eureka Magazine

Luxon Engineering is featured in this months issue of Eureka Magazine, a UK publication that focuses on engineering design. The article details the WRD differential and Luxon's role in its design and development on page 17.    Download the magazine (19Mb pdf file)

 January 27, 2008

Luxon Engineering Chooses Altair HyperWorks

Luxon Engineering chooses the Altair HyperWorks software as its primary finite element analysis tool. The HyperWorks suite substantially increases our analysis capabilities giving us a clear advantage in conceptual design and finite element modeling.    Read More

 January 20-23, 2008

SolidWorks World Comes to San Diego

The SolidWorks World 2008 International Users Conference and Exposition will be held January 20th-23rd at the San Diego Convention Center. Luxon Engineering will be in attendance and the Williams Racing Developments, Luxon Engineering designed differential will be on display in the expo hall.    Read More

 November 7-10, 2007

2007 ARRC F1000 National Championships

The American Road Race of Champions was held at Road Atlanta this last week. Stohr Cars had two factory entries, both running the Luxon Engineering designed WRD differential. Once again the differential proved its performance capabilities for 2nd and 4th place finishes.    Read More

 October 11-14, 2007

2007 SCCA National Championship Runoffs

The SCCA National Championship Runoffs were held in Topeka, Kansas this last week. The Luxon Engineering designed WRD differential put the power down for 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 7th place finishes in the DSR category.    Read More