AAPEX 2026 is in the books. It was an action-packed week in Las Vegas, where we caught up with familiar faces, met new pros in the industry, discovered new products, checked out high performance vehicles, and more.
Here are the highlights of what we saw at the Venetian Expo and Caesars Forum.
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Tom Valentino is the editor of National Oil and Lube News. A graduate of Ohio University, he has more than two decades of experience in newspapers, public relations and trade magazines, covering everything from high school sports to behavioral health care. Tom’s first vehicle was a 1990 Mazda 626, which he used to deliver pizzas in the summer after graduating high school. Today, he drives a 2019 Jeep Compass, which usually has a trunk full of his daughter’s sports gear. In his spare time, Tom is an avid Cleveland sports fan and a volunteer youth sports coach.
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