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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.

We shipped the one-hundredth FLYght trap in India today, 6 October 2021, to Symega Food Ingredients Limited. A year ago, we made our first FLYght trap shipment on 14 September 2020 to The Sad Vaidyasala Private Limited. When we launched FLYght One in India in July 2020, we knew of the challenges in marketing our product. We introduced India’s first UV LED Insect Light Trap to customers managing their businesses during a once-in-a-century pandemic. With support from our distributors and the interest of pioneering customers who preferred an advanced technology trap that significantly saved on electricity, we managed to sell nearly a hundred traps by March 2021. The COVID-19 second wave affected our FLYght Duo launch and shipments. Customers have enthusiastically chosen the aluminum shell FLYght Duo. We are offering a free one-year glue board supply and shipping of FLYght traps for the next six months. Thank you, customers, distributors, and Pestroniks team for helping us reach this milestone.

Giridhar Pai Associates (GPA) launched the FLYght Duo UV LED fly catcher in July 2021, and it quickly became a leading Indian UV LED fly catcher. Hundreds of customers have purchased the FLYght Duo, basing their buying decisions on its unique features. In this blog post, we list twelve reasons why customers choose the FLYght Duo for their fly management programs. Extensive information about the product can be found on the FLYght Duo product page on our website and in the FLYght Duo videos on our YouTube channel. We have diligently created marketing materials that provide detailed information about the FLYght Duo’s product features, usage, and maintenance. Recognizing that UV LED fly catchers were a relatively new concept for customers, we even created a unique time-lapse video showcasing the FLYght Duo attracting and trapping flies within a controlled test chamber. This groundbreaking video highlights the speed and effectiveness of the FLYght Duo’s fly-catching capabilities. Visit our website to learn more and purchase your FLYght Duo today!

We are happy to present the next #FLYght trap model: the FLYght Duo. In its sturdy aluminum shell, the light FLYght Duo weighs just 1.75 kg. & continues the trend of sleek, robust, & low energy consuming ILTs. Pestroniks has launched FLYght Duo across Asia and is introducing that ILT at other continents during 2021. Businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic now have an opportunity to optimize their energy costs by switching to the FLYght range.  Compared to two and three fluorescent tube UV traps, FLYght saves users 70-80% of the power that such traps consume. The daily savings in power costs offset the purchase price of the FLYght trap. The simple design of FLYght Duo lets a user handle it with one hand even while standing on a ladder, adding to user safety. We look forward to supplying FLYght Duo to Indian users after successfully launching FLYght One in July 2020. Being inherently glass-free, FLYght UV LEDs last 50,000 hours and do not need a replacement for many years. It is also mercury-free and thus an ideal choice in meeting #FoodSafety & #EnvironmentalManagementSystem norms. FLYght traps have a 3-year warranty on the electrical components. Contact us to know more about the #FLYghtDuo.

Here is our journey in brief during the first year of our business operations. We incorporated our company on January 10, 2020. PepperDrops designed our logo on April 1, 2020. We received our first order for consulting services from Hygiene Research Institute Private Limited on May 28, 2020, We get our first order for FLYght One from The Sad Vaidya Sala Pvt. Ltd. on June 11, 2020 and shipped it on September 14, 2020. Pestroniks Innovations Pte. Ltd. MD Carl Baptista formally launched FLYght One trap online on July 2, 2020 to Indian Pest Control Operators (PCOs). We launched our website www.giridharpaiassociates.com – India’s first for customers to order Insect Light Traps and pay online on October 13, 2020. We made our twenty fifth trap shipment on October 26, 2020. In 2021 we shall launch FLYght Duo fly trap and Aedex-X mosquito trap.