Leading gaming testing company Gaming Laboratories International will double the capacity of its Macau laboratory in response to a recent administrative regulation, according to comments made by Ian Hughes, the company’s vice president of global services, at the recent G2E Asia trade show.
“With the new regulation that is coming in Macau, which will affect manufacturers and GLI, we are going to double our lab here,” Hughes said, according to GGRAsia.
The rule involved is Administrative Regulation No. 26/2012 on the “Regime for the Supply and Requisitioning of Gaming Machines, Equipment and Systems,” which is being updated by the Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, also known as DICJ.
“The regulator has been holding open workshops for the industry, and there is an open dialogue among manufacturers, the regulator and testing laboratories,” Hughes said. “We’ve been having an excellent dialogue; DICJ is cooperative, and the industry will continue to work closely so that the objectives can be met without impacting the industry,” he remarked.
“That’s all about timing but people have to listen and we are listening,” he added referring to the updated rules.
The executive revealed there were currently about eight engineers in the GLI Macau lab, a number that could be increased to between 15 and 20 in the next one to two years. “When you increase by 10 people in the U.S., that’s easy, but when you increase 10 people in Macau, that’s a doubling,” Hughes said.
