Geoffrey McDowell, SuzoHapp director for Asia Pacific
Geoffrey McDowell, SuzoHapp director for Asia Pacific
"There is a lot of interest around the globe for this product, as wages and cost of employees go up, people are looking for ways to try to reduce overheads,” McDowell told local media GGRAsia during recent G2E Asia 2017 held in Macau.
SuzoHapp is aiming to have the chip dispensing machine working as a "satellite cage” on casino floors, said the firm’s executive. "We are also about to release our first cash redemption terminal for bill breaking and also cashing the tickets from the gaming floor,” said McDowell. "We are releasing that product in the next six to eight weeks. And that will be available for sale globally.”
The new products that SuzoHapp displayed at the trade show this year included the 27-inch Dual Sided LCD display, a product "predominantly for baccarat tables,” noted McDowell.
SuzoHapp is looking towards Asia as a "big growth market” in the next five years, especially with Macau, Philippines and Japan – though Japan is still in the process of drafting the implementation bill that regulates casino resorts, McDowell said.
"We obviously want to be a player in the [Japan] market when it does break … a lot of [gaming] concessionaires we are dealing with globally will be in that market, so we want to continue that relationship and support them, and to enter new ventures as well,” McDowell stated.
"We have been serving the market globally for a long time; we are very experienced in building gaming equipment, and supporting our OEMs [original equipment manufactures]. So I think there’s a place for us in that [Japan] market as well,” he added.
Source: GMB / GGR Asia
