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We begin 2023 by sharing the journey of our third product, the RodeXit All-In-One seal – a rodent-proofing strip.  🐭 Mice and rats no longer have unfettered entry into Indian buildings with a RodeXit rodent seal barrier! RodeXit’s ten steel wires deter the toughest rodents attempting to gnaw their way into a structure. 🐁 We were very confident that the RodeXit rodent strip would change rodent management in India when we launched it in 2022 thanks to the efforts of our friend, Raja Mahendran, and the RodeXit rodent seal co-inventor Bjørn von Ryberg. In this blog post, we are glad to share the success of an international collaboration of pest management professionals across Europe, India, and Australia to rodent-proof and secure Indian buildings against mice and rats. In September 2021, the international business consultant Raja Mahendran based in Australia, proposed that we evaluate the potential for the RodeXit rodent-proofing strip in India.  Our discussions with Raja Mahendran soon led to our first online meeting with Raja Mahendran and RodeXit rodent seal’s co-inventor, Bjorn von Ryberg, in October 2021.  The RodeXit rodent seal is a product from Denmark currently available only in the United States of America and India for pest management professionals (PMPs) to securely rodent-proof buildings against rodent entry. Bjorn von Ryberg was very receptive to our market positioning suggestion for the RodeXit rodent seal in India and helped us price it for just rupees five hundred a foot for the end-consumer.    We have retained the highly economical INR 500/foot price for the RodeXit rodent seal despite currency fluctuations and increased freight costs since we launched RodeXit in India.  Also, Indian PMPs can increase their revenue by offering a RodeXit rodent seal installation service.  As the RodeXit rodent seal is a simple product, Indian pest control technicians can quickly learn and fix it for customers, generating revenue for their pest control company. In December 2021, we signed a distribution agreement with RodeXit North America (RNA) ApS for Giridhar Pai Associates LLP (GPAL) to become the first Asian RodeXit distributor. As a result of GPAL’s RodeXit distribution agreement with RNA ApS, India is now only the second country in the world where RodeXit is available other than the United States of America.  We ordered and received our first shipment of 200 meters of the RodeXit rodent seal in India in March 2022.  We started distributing RodeXit samples among GPAL distributors and end consumers starting April 2022.   However, our progress was slow as there is no other rodent-proofing strip in India, barring the RodeXit All-In-One seal, and we had first to educate users about the concept of rodent-proofing.  Most Indian PMPs rely on trapping and poison-baiting rodents. However, with the customers not demanding humane and non-toxic rodent management solutions, there has been little incentive for rodent-proofing in India. We widely shared RodeXit samples among our distributors, who showed them to their customers afterward. As a result, one of our distributors, Pecopp, made a short video to promote RodeXit and became the first Indian pest control operator (PCO) to sell the RodeXit rodent seal to a customer in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Pecopp exhibited RodeXit for the first time at an Indian trade show at the Clean India Show, Greater NOIDA, from 13 to 15 July 2022. In January 2023, Aaditya Pest Specializers Private Limited became the second Indian PCO to supply RodeXit to a customer in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. A direct order for 100 m. RodeXit from a leading Indian FMCG group in January 2023 helped GPAL complete the sale of its first 200-meter RodeXit rodent seal import shipment, marking a significant milestone for rodent-proofing in India.  Thus, over ten months, starting in April 2022, GPAL finished distributing 200 meters of the RodeXit seal it imported into India in March 2022. Food safety auditors commonly highlight the rodent entry points in the food industry where they conduct food safety audits. However, till we launched the RodeXit rodent seal in 2022, there was no simple, easy-to-use, and inexpensive rodent-proofing product in India. RodeXit is very easy to install in most cases requiring less than an hour, which we shall soon demonstrate through RodeXit installation videos filmed in India.  As RNA ApS has sold RodeXit mainly in the United States, we don’t yet have videos demonstrating how to rodent-proof doors and rolling shutters in India using the RodeXit rodent seal.  GPAL’s RodeXit videos will make it easy for Indian PMPs and building owners to understand how to use the RodeXit rodent seal to deny rodent entry by the use of the RodeXit rodent seal. With the increasing concern about using certain rodent traps and rodenticides, the need for alternative rodent management methods has never been greater.  Several Indian states have already restricted the use of glueboards for trapping mice and rats.  Further, non-target species may ingest rodenticides, and large quantities of rodenticides that are not consumed by rodents contaminate soil and water, polluting them.  Sanitation is the first step in rodent management, and it must be followed by rodent entry prevention into buildings.  By restricting rodent entry into buildings, building owners can reduce or eliminate the use of rodent traps.  Preventing rodents also helps eliminate rodent damage to property inside buildings. The second step to rodent management is preventing rodent entry, for which GPAL is happy to offer the “RodeXit All-In-One seal” to rodent-proof buildings against mice and rats.  As you read above, GPAL has initiated India’s rodent-proofing revolution over the past year with the RodeXit rodent seal!    We are confident that we shall soon complete the distribution of our second consignment of 200 meters of the RodeXit seal in India that arrived in February 2023. Till recently, there was only one other rodent-proofing solution in India, but that option is no longer available.  Also, that product range had multiple options and components, making it difficult for the user to understand and implement that rodent-proofing method. With the advent of the RodeXit rodent seal, Indian

Giridhar Pai Associates LLP’s third-year journey in 2022 In a year that started with the peak of the Omicron COVID-19 wave in India, we completed one more year of business without pandemic restrictions, like in 2020 and 2021.  In 2022, it was a fresh start to business as earlier, with people returning to industry tradeshows and in-person meetings.  We progressed significantly in the third year of our company and recorded the following milestones on the way. January 2022: We revamped our website removing its e-commerce feature and adding the Aedes-X and RodeXit products and details about mosquitoes and rodents to complement our new product range.  We changed our LinkedIn and Facebook profile images to reflect the three international products we represent. We reached 400 followers of GPAL on our LinkedIn company profile. We received our Importer Exporter Code (IEC) from the Government of India. February 2022: We got our first export order from Big Tree Brands, Zambia, and shipped them FLYght Duos on February 22 22. We Ordered 200 m. RodeXit All-In-One seal from RodeXit ApS on February 22, 2022. We reached 500 followers on GPAL’s LinkedIn profile. March 2022: We received 200 m. RodeXit from Denmark on March 25, 2022, making India the second country in the world where the RodeXit All-In-One seal is available for pest control operators (PCOs) for rodent-proofing. April 2022: We had the RodeXit online launch in India by Bjorn von Ryberg and Raja Mahendran on April 21, 2022, for the GPAL distributors across India. July 2022: Pecopp Pest Control Services Pvt. Ltd. Sold the first RodeXit 25 m. roll in India to its customer in the state of Maharashtra. Our distributor, Pecopp Pest Control Services Pvt. Ltd., displayed FLYght One, FLYght Duo, Aedes-X, and RodeXit for the first time at a tradeshow in the Clean India Show 2022 from 13-15 July, 2022 at the India Exposition Mart, Greater Noida. November 2022: We shipped our 200th FLYght trap shipped in India on November 2, 2022. We reached 1000 followers on LinkedIn on November 3, 2022. We completed the Government of India’s Startup India registration on November 9, 2022. In closing, we thank our customers, distributors, and business partners, Pestroniks Innovative Pte. Ltd., for their excellent support to GPAL in its third-year journey.

We shipped the 1st FLYght Trap to Sad Vaidya Sala Private Limited on September 14, 2021 We shipped the 100th FLYght trap to Symega Food Ingredients Limited on October 6, 2021. Today, on November 2, 2022, we shipped our 200th FLYght Trap to AB Mauri India Private Limited. FLYght UV LED Insect Light Trap (ILT) is India’s first Make-In-India product of its kind we manufacture at Mysuru. Starting 2019, when we developed the product, we have been progressing in our FLYght sales to replace ILTs in India from fluorescent tube ones to UV LED ones. Such a switch from UV fluorescent to UV LED is happening globally, and we are proud to mention that India is one of the first countries to have locally-made UV LED ILTs. The greatest benefits of UV LED ILTs are that ones like FLYght consume only 20% of the electricity of the fluorescent tube (conventional) traps. Further, FLYght UV LEDs last 50,000 hours and do not need a replacement for five years. Most fluorescent tubes last about ten months, after which they do not emit UV, which attracts filth flies to such traps. The discarded tubes contribute to solid waste with heavy metals during each fluorescent tube replacement. Hundreds of Indian customers have switched from conventional ILTs to FLYght UV LED ILTs. We started by introducing steel FLYght traps and followed it up with aluminum-bodied ones, which are light yet sturdy. FLYght traps have a bio-Visual Enhancer (VE+) coated board that enhances the UV intensity and wavelengths of the eight UV LEDs emissions. FLYght traps attract and trap as many filth flies as larger conventional flycatchers.  In addition, as FLYght traps rely on universal glue boards, our customers are free to source their replacement glueboards from any source, though we prefer they order from us. In humanity’s journey towards Net Zero, FLYght and products like it will play a key role in substantially reducing electricity consumption during fly monitoring with flycatchers. We thank all our customers for their FLYght trap purchases.  We also thank our distributors for supporting our sales and Pestroniks for efficient order handling and dispatches.

Since 2005, the Clean India Show (CIS) has brought together cleaning & hygiene industry professionals and end-users to promote facility cleaning and maintenance in India. CIS is now the single largest Cleaning Industry platform for manufacturers to showcase their cleaning & hygiene solutions.  In addition, facility management (FM) professionals patronize CIS to learn the latest product innovations and cleaning solutions from across the globe. CIS is a great place for FM professionals to update themselves with the latest innovation & technology for managing commercial, municipal, industrial & residential buildings. CIS is a sought-after networking event for product suppliers & solution seekers to connect, establish and grow their relationships. GPAL is happy to announce that its distributor, PECOPP Pest Control Services Private Limited (PECOPP), is displaying FLYght traps and RodeXit proofing strips for the first time in India at a trade show through the CIS 2022. When GPAL launched FLYght One UV LED ILT in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown allowed only for an online event.  However, a year later, when GPAL launched FLYght Duo UV LED ILT in 2021, that event was online, too, as India was during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The launch of RodeXit in April 2022 was also an online event as GPAL distributors were in different Indian cities and could only meet RodeXit inventor Bjorn von Ryberg in Denmark and their marketing advisor Raja Mahendran in Australia over a video call. With the resumption of trade shows, it is now business as usual, and we look forward to customers getting a feel of FLYght and RodeXit at PECOPP’s CIS 2022 stall. Here is what you can expect when you see those products for the first time. FLYght traps: FLYght One and FLYght Duo are compact, making many viewers wonder how such a small trap can be effective as conventional fluorescent tube ILTs, which are about double the size of FLYght traps.  The metal shell of FLYght traps makes them sturdy and last longer and withstand handling without damage for many years. You can also open the FLYght trap to notice that the eight UV LEDs face the white bio-Visual Enhancer (VE)+ board at the back of the trap.  The bright glow you notice is a reflection from the bioVE+ board, and its UV component (which people can’t see) attracts filth flies to the FLYght trap.  You will see that the two glue boards slide into the trap, and a viewer can’t see the flies stuck on them.  The most amazing aspect of both traps is that FLYght is under two kilograms, and FLYght One is slightly heavier than two kilograms. RodeXit: RodeXit has been available in India only since April 2022, and thus few Indian customers have seen it.  However, GPAL’s distributors have shown the product’s samples to FM teams across India. RodeXit is available as a twenty-five-meter roll in flat cardboard boxes and is very handy to move around. The RodeXit roll is suitable for cutting in any length, which avoids wastage, which is common with other rodent proofing products that their manufacturers sell in pre-set lengths. The screw markings across the strip are guides to installers and are key for quick fixing RodeXit on doors and shutters. When you touch the RodeXit strip, you will feel it has a rubbery texture as it is a Santoprene elastomer (thermoplastic vulcanizate).  RodeXit is rigid enough to withstand pressure but retains flexibility for door and shutter use after RodeXit installation.  When you observe the cut end of RodeXit, you will notice the ten steel wires impart RodeXit’s ability to repel rodents.  Unfortunately, due to the presence of the steel wires, you can only cut RodeXit using a metal cutter, though you can trim the elastomer portion using Stanley knives. Customers can avail of the special discount that PECOPP is offering for order bookings at the CIS 2022 at their stall. We look forward to meeting you at the PECOPP CIS 2022 stall, where their team shall show you FLYght One and FLYght Duo flycatchers and the RodeXit All- In-One rodent proofing strip. Register Now as Visitor for Clean India Show 2022

Let RodeXit rodent-proofing strip stop their entry into your premises. Rodents are among the most destructive pests on the earth that damage and destroy enormous property each year, gaining entry through the smallest openings in buildings.  While trapping and poison-baiting rodents curb them, temporarily limiting their numbers, effective rodent management requires sanitation and rodent-proofing. Experts believe that rodent management is twenty percent trapping and baiting and eighty percent cleaning and prevention. The most important aspect of rodent management is sanitation or effective cleaning. When you regularly clean your premises to remove food and water sources, you deny nutrition to rodents entering or already in there.  In addition, de-cluttering and organized storage prevent rodent harbourage that could lead to their nesting and breeding. Another effective step in rodent management is proofing to deny entry into a property. If mice or rats cannot enter your property, they can’t cause any further damage. Smart property owners have relied on rodent proofing as their principal step in tackling rodents. Using effective materials, they seal the rodent entry points into their buildings and enjoy the benefits of reduced rodent entry and activity inside their structures. We are happy to introduce Indian customers to Denmark’s RodeXit All-In-One Seal, an effective rodent proofing strip of Santoprene and steel wires. RodeXit has successfully passed rat-attack tests and deters mice, rats, and bandicoots from entering a structure that property owners have sealed. RodeXit finds ready acceptance among food safety and quality auditors as a rodent preventive step leading to high audit ratings and scores. RodeXit is a 6.2 cm. wide strip available in any length, and we can install it for you in under thirty minutes in most cases. After installing RodeXit, you will be able to prevent rodents from entering your premises for the next decade (under favorable conditions) as it is long-lasting and weather-proof. Our distributors look forward to rodent-proofing your premises with RodeXit. #RodentManagement #RodentProofing #RodenProofingRevolution #KeepRodentsOut #RodeXitIinRodentsOut

India becomes the second country where the RodeXit rodent proofing strip is available This week, after receiving our first RodeXit All-In-One (AIO) seal from RodeXit North America ApS, India thus became the second country where this amazing rodent proofing material is now available. RodeXit is now available only in the USA and India. India is also one of the first countries where RodeXit’s AIO seal is available.  Its manufacturer introduced this latest variant early in 2022 to follow the first two product versions of the wave and straight proofing strips.  With the arrival of RodeXit AIO into the country, Indian customers now have a simple and easy-to-use rodent proofing material for use to prevent rodent entry into their facilities.  Through careful market analysis and planning, GPAL has ensured that the product pricing is highly affordable and leads to widespread adoption of the product in India. We are proud to associate with RodeXit, whose vision and mission are as follows: Vision: Our vision is to minimize the colossal losses suffered by individuals, enterprises, and society due to rodent intrusion in buildings and public facilities. Mission: Our mission is to develop, produce and sell effective and fast, and easy to mount rodent proofing devices and thereby to revolutionize the art of rodent proofing. Bjørn von Ryberg and Claus Frimand invented and developed the RodeXit seals in Denmark. The RodeXit Name and Logo: “RodeXit” is a contraction of the two words “rodent” and “exit.”  The underscore line in the logo is the cross-section of the RodeXit rodent proofing strip – showing the ten solid stainless-steel wires as ten white dots.  The green color in the logo symbolizes that the proofing strip is an ecofriendly and non-toxic solution to rodents. We shall soon be sharing RodeXit AIO product samples among our distributors so that they can install the proofing strip at their customers’ facilities to establish the product’s ease of installation and efficacy.  In addition, we shall be producing product use videos that demonstrate how a person can quickly fix a RodeXit AIO on a wooden or steel door in less than half an hour.  Our plans include an All India RodeXit Installation Challenge to find out the fastest time a PCO can provide rodent-proof structures with RodeXit.  The short time to fix it and the long time it will prevent rodent incursion make the RodeXit proofing strip a go-to product for Indian Pest Management Professionals and PCOs. We thank Bjørn von Ryberg and Raja Mahendran for their excellent support and guidance in introducing the RodeXit AIO to the Indian market.  Both shall grace the online Indian launch of RodeXit, and we look forward to making India the leading RodeXit user in the Asian continent.  We are excited to offer a highly innovative world-class pest management product, the RodeXit AIO, to Indian customers.

Mosquito gravitraps are devices that attract gravid female Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus seeking to lay eggs by creating microenvironments for safe egg-laying. With differing techniques, global gravitrap manufacturers have innovatively used mosquito behavior to lure and trap mosquitoes or kill them or their larvae. While studying the global range of commercially available gravitraps in the global market, we found the following TEN interesting aspects about them for you. Black gravitraps attract adult female mosquitoes, which seek dark places for egg-laying. Some gravitraps use oviposition cues they generate through hay or yeast-infused water (which one manufacturer calls ‘stinky water’). Some gravitraps use glueboards to trap female adult mosquitoes to control their population. Larvae secreted pheromones in gravitrap water attract female adult mosquitoes. Some gravitraps use mosquito larvae’s negative phototactic response to repel and kill them by asphyxiation. It would help freeze live adult mosquitoes you caught in a trap to inactivate them before examining them. Predators like ants like mosquito gravitraps for live adult mosquitoes in those devices that the ants use as prey! Gravitraps use Aedes aegypti behavior of laying eggs in multiple containers. Some gravitraps use pesticides or fungal biological control agents to kill mosquitoes. Cannibalism by mosquito larvae transmits pesticides from dead pupae to the larvae feeding on such pupae in gravitraps.

We are happy to announce that GPAL is now the sole authorized distributor of Denmark’s RodeXit ApS, makers of the famous, patented, RodeXit rodent proofing strip. We shall soon be sharing RodeXit proofing samples with interested customers from February 2022 and supplying the product from April 2022. RodeXit is a Santoprene proofing strip containing ten steel wires that deter rodents from chewing through it like most rodent proofing materials that people commonly use. Santoprene is a soft and versatile thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) in the thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) family. As RodeXit is versatile, you can seal gaps below doors or shutters and vertical (or astragal) gaps between glass doors. The proof of RodeXit’s efficacy is the successful result of the Danish Technological Institute’s ‘rat attack test’ in which rats could not damage or push up the RodeXit test strip for a week. RodeXit is a good option for protection against mice, rats, and bandicoots. Proofing gaps with RodeXit also helps prevent the entry of other pests, an incidental benefit. RodeXit is easy to handle and install with tin snips and Stanley knives. The screw markings on the product guide the user to fix it fast and complete the process in just ten minutes in most cases. Quick installation is a key RodeXit feature, and the product lasts for ten years from installation. RodeXit is suitable for closing gaps up to 50 mm. for which you would use two overlapping strips each of 35 mm. width. Therefore, you use two overlapping layers of RodeXit for a higher degree of rodent protection. RodeXit is versatile, and you can fix it on wooden or metal strips (such as carpet trims) to maintain aesthetics while rodent-proofing a gap. We supply RodeXit in 25 m. lengths in flat boxes, which are easy to carry even in a backpack with the minimal tools you need to fix it. You are better off preventing rodent entry into your home or business as the consequences of rodent presence include contamination, damage, bad odor, and spread of diseases. An easier option to trapping or baiting rodents is presenting their entry using RodeXit proofing strips. We at GPAL are proud to launch our third international brand at the start of our third year by making RodeXit available to Indian customers. We have planned an inexpensive rate per foot linear length of the RodeXit proofing strip to make it popular across India. With RodeXit, rodent management in India now has a new ally – a Santoprene proofing strip with ten stainless steel wires that deters the toughest rodent from entering a place. Our RodeXit proofing strip product page has full details and answers to your questions.

Giridhar Pai Associates LLP’s second-year journey in 2021. We launched FLYght Duo for the Indian market on May 11, 2021, when PCT Online featured a press release, Pestoniks Adds FLYght Duo Insect Light Trap (ILT). We re-launched our website www.giridharpaiassociates.com on May 20, 2021, with Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and FLYght Duo product listing. We launched Introduction to FLYght Insect Light Traps (ILTs) one-minute video on July 17, 2021. At our Sri Lankan distributor, Suren Cooke Agencies team’s training on August 10, 2021, we recorded Lead with LEDs by Carl Baptista, MD, Pestroniks Innovations, and uploaded it on YouTube on August 13, 2021. We had our second annual distributors meet on September 28, 2021, at which we: launched our e-book The Ultimate Guide to Choosing and Using UV LED Insect Light Traps and announced our FLYght for FLIGHTS sales contest. We made our one hundredth trap shipment on October 6, 2021, to Symega Food Ingredients Limited. We launched the AedesX Smart Gravitrap in India on December 7, 2021, by uploading the product’s Hindi video on YouTube. We added Envogree, Dekriminators, APCO, Terra Mica, and Ajanta Trading as our distributors.

The AedesX Smart Gravitrap is an effective, scientific, portable, flexible, low-maintenance, and pesticide-free ovi-trap against Aedes mosquitoes. In November 2020, Asiatic Specialty Products (ASP) of Singapore introduced the AedesX Smart Gravitrap, the only trap of its kind with a unique mode of action of using their response to light to kill Aedes mosquito larvae without chemical pesticides. AedesX Smart Gravitrap is a patented product that kills Aedes larvae naturally by using their negative phototactic behavior by which they move away from light. AedesX Smart Gravitrap’s design attracts and provides a conducive environment for female Aedes mosquitoes looking to lay their eggs. The AedesX Smart Gravitrap works on batteries and needs a water top-up for maintenance. AedesX Smart Gravitrap is portable and flexible for deployment in any environment that needs Aedes mosquito control. When you use it in the appropriate locations and sufficient numbers, the AedesX Smart Gravitrap significantly reduces future mosquito populations reducing the potential for disease transmission in the area where users deploy it. ASP is the proud innovator and owner of AedesX, the world’s first Smart Gravitrap co-developed with Pestroniks Innovations (Pestroniks) to add to the global arsenal in the ongoing battle against Aedes mosquitoes and the diseases they spread. We thank ASP and Pestroniks for their support in launching AedesX Smart Gravitrap in India from December 2021.