On its website, Casino Air, Inc. lets gaming industry customers tell the story.
The San Luis Obispo, California-based company, which has been creating indoor clean air systems since 1972 and established itself in the gaming industry in the 1990s, says it’s the leading innovator of tobacco smoke and odor abatement technology in the world.
Casino Air clients agree.
In the mid-2000s, Casino Air incorporated its heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) technology into the WinStar World Casino in Thackerville, Okla., where the Chickasaw Nation operates a gaming floor with 560,000 square feet of gambling space.
“Over the course of time the (tribe) had tried everything to get rid of tobacco smoke and odor,” said WinStar project manager Gordon Sjodin. “Casino Air solved the problem from the moment they fired up our first system, and we have never looked back. The return on investment has been exceptional.”
Casino Air supplies air cleaning technology to all 17 of the tribe’s Oklahoma properties.
At Treasure Island on the Las Vegas Strip, engineers were pumping in scents to mask the tobacco smoke until 2014, when Casino Air’s newest technology was installed. Facility operations manager Ben Donnellan, who opened the resort two decades earlier, said negative reviews of the casino’s air dropped by more than 90 percent.
“The casino floor and hotel lobby have taken on a whole new personality,” Donnellan said. “Our air quality now rivals any on the Strip.”
At the Thunder Valley Casino near Sacramento, operators of the property owned by the United Auburn Indian Community noticed the prevalence of tobacco smoke and odor. Thunder Valley opened in 2003 as Northern California’s first Las Vegas-style casino, with a 170,000-square-foot gaming floor.
Smoke was starting to get out into non-smoking areas of the property, including the hotel lobby and restaurants surrounding the casino floor.
Casino Air came in to remediate the problem. Tobacco smoke and odor was eliminated at the source, and the rooftop HVAC units now operate more efficiently, dramatically reducing energy costs.
Casino Air cites the return on investment created by implementing the technology. Energy costs drastically drop through the use of recirculated air, and eight out of 10 casino guests are non-smokers. The Casino Air system completely eliminates second-hand smoke.
Casino Air will be located in booth 3036 at the Global Gaming Expo, and CEO Denny Barringer, who founded the company, hopes the show is as successful as it was a year ago. In 2016, he posted a photo to the company’s website of him shaking hands with David Jimenez, Director General of Bingo-Roma in Madrid, Spain. Casino Air technology was soon installed in the casino.
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