Scientific Games unveils new scratchcard logistics facility in the UK

Scientific Games has officially opened a new state-of-the-art scratchcard logistics facility in the United Kingdom to serve National Lottery retailers.

With yesterday marking the official transfer of the UK National Lottery’s fourth license to Allwyn, the new 92,000-square-foot facility in Warrington features the company’s patented SciTrak technology, which includes predictive ordering and sorting systems that drive scratchcard supply-chain efficiencies and sales performance.

The logistics facility is the first of many scheduled deliverables from Scientific Games that are planned as part of the company’s partnership with Allwyn.

Allwyn’s transformation program includes the conversion of the National Lottery’s technology to Scientific Games’ advanced SYMPHONY enterprise gaming system and more than 40,000 retailer terminals.

Additionally, Scientific Games will provide a new digital platform, and high-performance instant win games created by UK-based SG Studios, as well as partner studios around the world via the SG Content Hub and Partner Program.

“We commend Allwyn on its vision for growing The National Lottery and substantially increasing returns to National Lottery-funded projects as a result,” said Scientific Games president of international and strategic accounts Michael Conforti. “We’ve long-awaited this moment, made possible through a close, working partnership.

“Together, we’ve proven our ability to navigate challenges necessary to begin delivering sustainable and responsible growth to the UK National Lottery on time and across channels. With more technology and products being deployed over the course of the license, this is going to be a very exciting time for The National Lottery, its retailers, players and beneficiaries.”

As the exclusive scratchcard provider to the National Lottery, Scientific Games has initiated its Scientific Games Enhanced Partnership program, with scratchcards produced at the company’s Leeds facility - one of five production facilities for the world’s largest lottery games company.

“Our ambition is to offer more games, attract more players, inject more entertainment, create more winners and raise even more money for National Lottery-funded projects,” said Allwyn UK CEO Andria Vidler. “Powering that ambition is a significant investment in our technology and operations as we modernize to secure The National Lottery’s future sustainability.”