Standard Change-Makers history

Looks like something you might see on the popular television show “Mad Men”. Here is a late 1960’s advertisement for a tower change machine that could be used for Vending or Parking in a commercial/professional building setting.

A 1961 brochure for the Model 500 was a mechanical change machine allowing customers to insert silver dollar or half-dollar coins, turn the crank and the machine would dispense quarters, or combinations of dimes and nickels – depending upon how the machine was configured when ordered.

McNutt’s oldest son, James R. McNutt, Jr., began working for Standard Change-Makers shortly after his graduation from college in 1977.

In 1991, then-Vice President Jim McNutt, Jr. led the efforts to build a new facility designed exclusively for the company’s needs.

Culminating in early 1992 with a modern 67,000 square foot building to house all of the company’s operations, as well as the Nik-O-Lok Company, and still the present headquarters.

In 1998, Standard introduced the enhanced “System 600-FST” that featured more advanced technology to deal with the growing challenges of fraud and theft facing self-service business owners.

In 2000, Standard introduced the BX “Bill-to-Bill Exchanger” Series in response to the requests from Laundry Card store owners.

In 2003 – the Standard engineers developed our Modular “Smart Hopper” technology that provides a simple-function, low cost solution that the various self-service industries requested.

Jim McNutt, Sr. served as Chairman of the Board until his passing in June, 2006.

Standard started working with the EZ-Pay partners at the 2009 Clean Show.

In 2010, Standard introduced the Guardian XP (GXP) Series of entry stations for Automatic Bays in the Car Wash industry.

The EASYPay solution was purchased by BCC Payments, LLC in 2015, and eventually evolved into the Laundry Boss.

In 2017, Standard Change-Makers introduced the EF+ Module, the third generation of the Expanded Function Module that provides programming, diagnostic and reporting features for the Modular Series machines.

Rob Unterborn, who had been COO since 2018, became President/CEO and Jim McNutt, Jr. became Chairman of Standard Change-Makers.

The dual note MultiMech has an additional 2,000 bills capacity over the Fujitsu F-53 bill dispenser. (Standard introduced the rear load models first, and the front load models would follow in 2019).

2021 – Standard Change-Makers, Inc. was purchased by RKU Standard Incorporated.