International Carwash Association Trade Show 2010

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These pictures show the beautiful Birmingham Alabama International Airport.  Do flights even go international directly from Birmingham?  Or by international do they mean around our nation?  So it should be Birmingham National Airport?  I don’t know but I do know that I have a direct flight to Las Vegas, which is awesome!

cwguy.com ICA best of show!

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This product is coming soon and is just for MDB coin changers/coin mechs right now.  But this cool new MEI product is the Cashflow Series 2000 VNR Vending Recycler.  It has a flashy front bezel with leds on it and can also use standard non-flashy bezels.  But the best feature is the bill recycler piece.  The recycler module holds up to 30 bills then will spit them out for change instead of a bill breaker.  Just think about having one of these in your entry unit and giving bills as change instead of change!

UPDATED 20160820:  http://www.meigroup.com/usa/vending/vending_products/bill_acceptors/vn2700_bill_validator/datasheet.pdf

Bette Midler show

So walking into the show I realized that there were metal detectors? Really? For Bette Midler? Was there an assassination atempt I missed in the news? But after the metal detector, there was “empty your pockets” and you have to “check your camera”! What! Check your camera? I did not even want to take a picture until then. So I took a picture.

The last picture shows the checked camera line.

ICA Trade show smaller?

I got a distributor pass from Trans-Mate so I was able to walk the floor early. (Thanks Trans-Mate; I am actually switching to their chemicals.). The floor seemed smaller than last year with less booths but we will have to wait on attendance. But it is always exciting to walk the floor!

ICA Trade Show 2009!

I got my confirmation for my ICA admission today.  I am excited about going to Vegas and I love the direct flight from Birmingham.  I will be hopefully live blogging, twittering and maybe even taking some video if I get any suggestions (email me anytime).