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Time and again there have been news reported for flight delays due to rodent activity spotted on a flight. Many domestic, as well as international flights, have faced delays due to this tiny rodent who possesses the threat of causing huge damages and losses.

Imagine a rat gnawing on a communication or signal cable and making the entire flight incommunicado. Rats on board an aircraft can lead to a catastrophe if they start chewing up electric wires and if that happens, pilots will have no control over the system onboard leading to a disaster.

No doubt you need to maintain good hygiene standards on board. Cleanliness should be an utmost priority. But along with this, you can use products that are non-toxic, safe for humans and which can repel the pests from entering the area.

Let us have a look at the recent news reported for rat causing flight delays and what measures can be taken to avoid such situations in the future.

Rat delays plane take off for 12 hours in India

A domestic flight in India was delayed for nearly 12 hours after a rat was spotted scampering around the aircraft, news reports and officials said on Tuesday.

Air India flight AI-952 was preparing for take off from the southern city of Hyderabad for Vishakapatnam, a coastal city, early on Sunday, when the rodent was seen running around the cabin, the Times of India daily reported.

Helpless passengers for the flight were forced to stay put at Hyderabad airport all through the day until airline staff managed to get rid of the rat, the report said.

An Air India official confirmed the incident to dpa, adding that it was being investigated but gave no further details.

The passengers continued on their journey only after staff carried out a fumigation to sanitise the flight and searched for any possible damage caused by the rat.

The report said that there were ugly scenes at the airport as infuriated passengers checked with airline staff when their flight would take off.

Several among them took to social media to express their amusement and anger over the incident.

Rat delays US-bound Air India flight by over 9 hours

Saurabh Sinha | TNN | Updated: Aug 28, 2017

NEW DELHI: A rat on board Air India’s Delhi-San Francisco flight delayed it by over nine hours on Sunday.

The Boeing 777 was taxiing at IGI airport to operate one of the world’s longest nonstop flights when the rodent was spotted. As per safety protocol, it had to be brought back to the terminal and fumigated. Then with a new crew, the almost-full flight (AI 173) finally took off around noon on Sunday instead of the schedule time of 2.30am.

So while fumigation of the aircraft, to ensure that the rodent is eliminated, was over in six hours, it took time to find two commanders and two copilots for this flight. The combined impact was that the plane took off with a delay of nine hours. Passengers were unhappy at the long delay.

An aircraft needs to be fumigated after a rodent is sighted to ensure it is eliminated and does not pose a threat to safety by cutting electric wires and sending the systems haywire. “Rats on board an aircraft can lead to a catastrophe if they start chewing up electric wires of a plane. If that happens, pilots will have no control on any system on board leading to a disaster,” a senior commander said.

What usually leads to such a situation is that passengers inadvertently drop a lot of food on the cabin floor, which keeps rats busy. The most common way for rats to get on board an aircraft is through catering vans. “This is a universal phenomenon. Rats follow the large storage cases in which food trays are kept. The catering vans are like a home for them as food keeps getting dropped. Rats get on the high lifts that take those storage cases to aircraft and then remain there. This happens across the world,” said an official.

Periodic fumigation for pest control is done by airlines to tackle the menace. The use of rat baits, mechanical traps, and glue boards have already proved to be ineffective. But the growing number of incidences reported clearly states the ineffectiveness of these methods.

What effective measures can be implemented to avoid this menace?

Rodrepel™ is a product manufactured by C Tech Corporation which is an extremely low toxicity and extremely low hazard, and environmentally safe anti-rodent additive specially developed for a range of polymeric and coating applications including films, wires, and cables, etc. It is also effective in case the target species are other animals.

The wires and cables used in the airplanes for radar, communication, control, signaling, data transmission, lighting, surveillance, etc. can be incorporated with Rodrepel™ masterbatch to prevent them from pest attack and ultimately avoid any signaling loss, communication disruption or fire hazard. Different types of polymeric seats can be manufactured by incorporating our masterbatch in them.

Rodrepel™ is also available in lacquer and liquid concentrate form and can be easily coated onto an application to repel the rodents.

The liquid concentrate can be blended with paints and applied to the interior and exterior of the airplanes to prevent the entry of pests in them. The liquid concentrate can be applied to the interior and exterior of the airports and the offices. The storage areas from the airports can be coated with our liquid concentrate to keep those places safe from pest menace. The liquid concentrate can be used in accommodation areas of pilots and crew members. The liquid concentrate is compatible with all types of paints and it dries off easily.

The lacquer can be applied to already installed wires and cables, utility pipes, polymeric and metallic racks, pallets. The already installed arrestor cables can be coated using our Rodrepel™ lacquer which will prevent the rodents from chewing them. The lacquer can be applied to metallic components from the equipment. The lacquer is an easy application that is compatible with most of the surfaces like wood, concrete, polymer, ceramics, concrete, etc.

We have developed our product in the form of a spray, the Rodrepel^TM rodent repellent spray which is an easy to use product. The product can be sprayed on components from airplanes, offices, kitchen and canteen areas, storage areas, food carts, trolley cars, etc. after clearing the dust and waste from components. It can be sprayed on the wires and cables, seat cushions, doors, and windows of airplanes. It can be sprayed on infested areas and entry points. The product when applied properly repels the pests and protects the components from damage. The expensive components can thus be protected, and unnecessary maintenance cost spent on replacement of the parts damaged by pests can be saved. The product does not cause any harmful effect on human health, non-target species or even target species. The product is safe for the environment.

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com if you’re facing problems with rodents and get best remedies to combat the pest menace.

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http://www.rodrepel.com/
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Rats can make a home almost anywhere. They infest homes, agriculture, and foodstuffs, and they easily adapt to their surroundings.

They are sometimes found living in rice fields or around poultry or other farm buildings as well as in industrial sites where food and shelter are available.

Rats and mice consume and contaminate feed, gnaw on structural, mechanical, and electrical components, and weaken concrete slabs and walkways with their burrowing activities. They can also potentially carry diseases such as bubonic plague, leptospirosis, rabies, and bacterial food poisoning.

Recent news reported is as below:

Roof Rat Damage Causing Concern for Growers

March 16, 2018

 Typically more of a problem in urban areas, roof rat damage is causing significant concern for farmers. According to University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) scientists, roof rats are appearing in considerable numbers this year.  Researchers suggest monitoring fields for rodent activity and using bait stations before the growing season to prevent problems from developing further.

The amount of rain California experienced last year created ideal conditions for the rodent populations to thrive.  The wet weather produced a substantial food source for the rats in weeds and weed seeds.  The food supply attracted roof rats away from urban environments out to farms where they were able to quickly reproduce.

Roof rat damage is being reported in several different commodities including citrus, avocados, pomegranates and nut crops.  Aside from feeding on the crop directly, rendering it unmarketable, the rodents are also chewing on tree limbs and causing branch dieback.  Growers are also reporting damage to irrigation lines.

Roof rats wreak havoc around Valley: Exterminator tips to get rid of critters

 By Lexi Sutter │ March 04, 2018

Norway rats, pack rats, and roof rats are living in the Valley, and where you live could determine which type you’ll see. Regardless, you’ll likely have a rat run-in at one point.

“I have no fruit and no trash and there is no end to it,” explained Irina Grebenshchikova, who is dealing with a rat problem at her condo in Arcadia. “I don’t have any citrus trees, I don’t have much of a garden, so for me to remove so many animals is just kind of unexpected.”

Buying traps is part of her weekly routine, and she’s consistently catching rats.

It’s not surprising news for Valley exterminator James Esquibel, who owns Jiminey Kricket Exterminating. He’s seen a large rise in the need for critter control.

“I’ve seen over the last two years about a 1,000 percent increase,” he said.

Esquibel believes the new and constant construction in the Valley is to blame.

You can use products that repel these rodents instead of killing them thus balancing the eco-system.

At C Tech Corporation we provide you with an effective solution. Our product Rodrepel^TM is developed by using green technology. It is an extremely low concern, low toxic, low hazardous and non-mutagenic animal aversive. It is durable under extreme climatic conditions.

Our product works on the mechanism of repellency. The product triggers a fear response in rodents thus protecting the application. It causes severe temporary distress to the mucous membrane of the rodents due to which the pest stays away from the application. The product triggers an unpleasant reaction in case if the pest tries to gnaw away the application. After encountering the above-mentioned emotions, the animal instinctively perceives it with something it should stay away from and stores this information for future reference. The fact that certain rodents are repelled is mimicked by other rodents as well. Thus, the other rodents too stay away from the applications. The unpleasant experience is imprinted within the animal’s memory and passed on to its progeny.

Our product is RoHS, RoHS2, RoHS3, EU BPR, APVMA, NEA compliant and FIFRA exempted. Our product does not cause harm to target as well as non-targeted species. It just repels them from the applied product. It works on the mechanism of repellency.

Rodrepel^TM is available in the forms of masterbatch, liquid concentrate, and lacquer.

Masterbatch can be incorporated into polymeric applications like fencing, water pipes, agricultural films, polymeric tree guards, wires, cables, etc. This would result in the final application being rodent repellent.

The liquid concentrate can be mixed in paints in a pre-determined ratio and be applied to the interior and exterior of houses, ceilings, gardens, farms, outhouses, etc. to repel roof rats from the area required.

Lacquer form can be directly applied to the already installed application such as attics, wooden fences, guards, pipes, wires, cables, etc. The lacquer is compatible with most of the surfaces like metal, wood, concrete, polymer, ceramic, etc.

We have developed our product in the form of a spray, the Rodrepel^TM rodent repellent spray which is an easy to use product. The product can be sprayed on components from warehouses, storage areas, attics, homes, etc. after clearing the dust and waste from components.

Hence by using Rodrepel^TM, homes, farms, and gardens can be prevented from roof rat damage effectively and considerably.

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com if you’re facing problems with rodents and get the best remedies to combat the pest menace.

Also, visit our websites:

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http://www.rodrepel.com/
http://www.termirepel.com/
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http://www.rodrepel.com/
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A gas sector, from the production of gas to its transportation, gives utmost priority to the safety aspects concerning it. Gas is commonly used in the workplace for heating the work environment and water supplies, cooking and processing products. The gas itself can come from a number of sources including natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and methane. These fuel gases are inflammable and toxic, and so safety measures are taken to prevent explosion or poisoning.

Gas can be supplied either piped into the premises from the mains supply or a storage tank, or in small cylinders used close to the appliance with a flexible hose connection. Gas gathering application involves transportation of gas via pipelines, and so does our home cooking system- be it LPG cylinder or PNG pipeline. Traditionally steel pipelines were used to carry the gas but pipelines composed of the polymer have certainly outweighed them in all aspects of the selection of pipe material.  Polymers are corrosion resistant, electrical and thermal insulators, fatigue resistant, chemically inert, lightweight, eco-friendly and cost-efficient. Durability and flexibility are the two most important factors supporting the use of polymer pipelines. Polymers like PP, HDPE, LDPE, and PVC are the most widely used polymer materials for the distribution of natural gas.

Are we still safe?

Several incidences have been noted in the past where rodents have damaged these polymer pipelines causing unfortunate fatalities.  On March 4^th, 2016 there was an explosion due to a rat-eaten LPG pipe. The accident was reported at Tonca in Panaji. According to the report, In Panaji 10 flats, located in the Kamat Complex – Phase II, Tonca, were damaged, at 5.30 a.m. on Thursday, after an explosion occurred due to LPG leakage from a stove connecting the pipe. The LPG company officials found that the connecting pipe was eaten up by rats. Another fatal accident that took place was in Bengaluru city on November 14. Family of three succumbed to injuries they had suffered in a gas cylinder explosion at their house in Belathur Colony in Kadugodi on November 7. According to the officials, the hosepipe connecting the cylinder and stove was damaged as a rat had bitten it off. Shibin had cut that particular part and fixed it.

According to TNN, In 2013, Rat-nibbled a gas pipe which leads to an explosion, causing injury to 5 members of a family. This horrifying accident took place in Kondawa district of Pune. According to the officials, the gas had leaked through a 2mm hole on the rubber tube that a mouse had nibbled. The poorly ventilated kitchen added to the explosion’s intensity.

Yet another accident that took place was in the year 2007, August 8 where the Gas blast killed a pensioner which was caused after rats that gnawed through a lead pipe in her house. 

There are more than 2000 different rodent species. The classification of rodents include rats, mouse, beaver, gopher, paca, hamster, squirrel, etc. Rodents are flexible enough to go through even the slimmest of gaps. Rodents being ubiquitous creatures are present in large numbers at various locations and sometimes also find their way to gas pipelines causing a lot of loss and damage. They have incisors which grow continuously throughout their life. To keep them in check, rodents chew anything they find or smell attractive including our gas pipes. Curbing them is not an option as it is hard to execute, time taking and also bad for the food chain.

Prevent them? But how?  There is an efficient solution that C Tech Corporation, India has come up with. They have a unique product known as Rodrepel™ which solves our biggest grievances. So let us look at some of the salient features of Rodrepel™ and how it drives these mischievous rodents away from our homes, offices, and industries.

Rodrepel™ , an eco-friendly, extremely low toxic and extremely low hazard rodent aversive can be incorporated in the gas tubing and pipelines, hindering the rodents from attacking them. It is an anti-rodent additive available in the form of masterbatches specially developed for a range of polymeric and coating applications including films, pipes, wires, and cables. It can be incorporated into nearly all base polymers like HDPE, LDPE, PVC, PE, etc. 

It is also available in the form of liquid concentrate, lacquer, and sprays.

The mechanism followed by our product is repellence by attacking their olfactory senses and it does not aid to kill the target species. The products do not interfere with the working of the end application it is used in. They are stable at high temperatures; they do not leach out or produce any toxic fumes and have a long shelf life of up to 50 years as per the application.

The liquid concentrate can be blended with paints and organic solvents and be applied to the pipes. The lacquer can be directly applied to the pipes as a protective coating to protect it from a rodent attack.

The sprays are an easy to use product which can be sprayed near the gas pipelines and affected areas to repel the rats.

The product is compliant with ROHS, ROHS2, ROHS3, REACH, APVMA, NEA, EU-BPR, and FIFRA exempted.

The products do not interfere with the working of the end application it is used in. They are stable at high temperatures; they do not leach out or produce any toxic fumes.

It looks as if this green chemistry-based product is tailor-made for this application. Don’t you feel?

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com if you’re facing problems with rodents and get best remedies to combat the pest menace.

Also, visit our websites:

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http://www.rodrepel.com/
http://www.termirepel.com/
http://www.combirepel.com/

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We all know of the intrinsic affinity rats have to polymeric materials like wires and cables. This affinity causes us a lot of damage on a daily basis in various sectors like telecommunications, pipeline, automobiles, etc. Of these rodents target the automobile sector to a great extent!

Rodents due to their growing incisors need something to gnaw on in order to reduce their incisors length. Practically, rodents gnaw at everything they can get their hands on. They are attracted to the smell and color of plasticizers used in our wires and cables. They attack wires and cables in all applications; be it indoors or outdoors. I am sure many of you might have experienced trouble getting your car started especially in winters. One of the main reasons for this is the rats.  Rats make their way into our car hoods during winters as the hoods provide a perfect refuge from the outside cold. After all, we all need a warm place and ready food. Our car hoods provide the perfect ‘cozy place’ and the car wires inadvertently become something to ‘munch on’ for these creatures!

Once they make a way into the automobiles, they gnaw at the engine wiring and damage it. They may also target the interiors of cars chewing through the seat covers and other foam material inside! The end result is a lot of monetary loss and heartache that can be easily avoided. Let us take a look at the below news article;

Rat causes R154,000 damage to Porsche

Good to gnaw: One rodent could cost you your car, so learn how to protect yourself

Wendy Knowler

13 August 2019

After rat damage, the repair bill for a prized Porsche Carrera 4S Cabriolet was a hefty R154.000. File picture 
Image: Marino Performance Motors

Lots of awful things can happen to a car – crashes, hijackings, hailstone damage, break-ins, flooding – but few people who take out insurance consider the destructive power of rats.

From chewing on essential wiring to building nests and hiding food inside the engine, a nesting rat with a taste for wiring insulation can be quite the wrecking furball.

When Micheal Maeso of Mount Edgecombe, KwaZulu-Natal, took his prized Porsche Carrera 4S Cabriolet on a spin recently, just three weeks after a full service was done, he noticed the oil pressure gauge wasn’t working.

Back to the Porsche dealership the car went, and that’s how the resident rat, and the damage it had caused before it died, was discovered.

“I was horrified,” Maeso said, “but I suppose living in areas that were previously cane fields, these things happen.”

The repair bill was a hefty R154,000.

Luckily for him, his claim was settled by his insurer, Hollard, via his broker, TIB Insurance Brokers.

Dublin woman tells how car was written off after rat destroyed part of vehicle

Dublin City Council is now facing renewed calls to tackle an ongoing rat problem in the city centre flat complex

By Mark O’brien

15^th July 2019

A woman has told how her car was written off after a RAT gnawed on the timing belt.

Pauline Nolan had a lucky escape after a rat got in under the bonnet of her silver 2005 Ford Fiesta and destroyed the engine.

Dublin City Council is now facing renewed calls to tackle an ongoing rat problem in the city centre flat complex.

Pauline, who lives in the flat complex on Cuffe Street, told the Irish Mirror: “On Friday morning I was driving out, turned on my engine and heard a bang or a pop.

“I reversed out and the rat was dead beside me. I hate them so I just kept going, which was quite dangerous.”

By the time Pauline reached her destination the car completely seized.

“When the AA chap came out, he had a look at it and you could see the traces of the rats and everything.”

The rat got trapped in the timing belt of the car and twisted it.

Pauline added: “I was absolutely lucky I wasn’t involved in a collision or my brakes could have gone if they chewed on the wires.

“I could have hit somebody. Somebody was looking after me the way it happened but unfortunately my car is a write off.”

As detailed in this interesting news article, the incidences of damaged have just been increasing at an alarming rate! Efforts need to be taken to ensure that our costly investment is protected from the wrath of these creatures.

Rodrepel^™, Termirepel^™, and Combirepel™- the range of non-toxic and non-hazardous anti rodent and anti-termite/insect additive masterbatches, developed by C Tech Corporation, India have been evaluated in various polymeric applications. These products are compliant with RoHS, RoHS2, RoHS3, NEA and REACH and are FIFRA exempted. These products act through a series of highly developed intricate mechanisms ensuring that insects and rodents are kept away from the target application.

These products are environment-friendly implying that they do not leach out of the polymer matrix besides exercising their basic function of keeping the target species away.  They are effective in low dosages, have low vapor pressure-thus posing no problems of fumes in the air, and they have a long life action depending upon the application. These products are available in the form of polymeric masterbatches compatible with all the kinds of thermosetting and thermoplastic polymers. The masterbatches can also be customized depending upon the target, application, and region.

These products are available in the form of ready to use lacquer that can be applied as a coating inside or on the surface of the automobiles. Also, these products in liquid form can be incorporated in paints and used in the automobile industry.

The newly developed product in the form of spray is a must-have product for every car owner! The Rodrepel™ Rodent Repellent Spray is specially designed for cars. The product can be sprayed on the car components after clearing the dust and waste from the components. The product when applied properly repels the rodents and protects the cars from rodent damage.

Rodrepel^TM works on the mechanism of repellence. It does not kill target species but only repels them.

It is high time we take effective and stringent measures for protecting our automobiles from these vile creatures!

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com if you’re facing problems with rodents and get best remedies to combat this menace.

Also, visit our websites:

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http://www.rodrepel.com/
http://www.termirepel.com/
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The beaver is a large, primarily nocturnal, semiaquatic rodent. They are the second-largest rodent in the world. They have a number of adaptations that make them adept swimmers including webbed feet and a broad, flat tail that is covered with scales. They also have an extra set of eyelids which are transparent and close over their eyes which enable them to see underwater. Beavers also seem to use their tails to regulate their body temperature. The tail is not well insulated, so when a beaver is too hot it can offload excess body heat through its tail.

Beavers have very large teeth in proportion to their skull. The incisors have a structure that means they are self-sharpening. Their tooth grew at an angle towards the beaver’s left eye. The outer surface is coated in enamel and the inner surface coated in dentine. This enamel is orange to chestnut brown in color. The softer dentine erodes faster than the hard enamel, maintaining a sharp cutting edge as the beaver gnaws. Beaver’s incisors grow at the fairly nifty speed of almost 0.5 cm a month. The top and bottom teeth keep each other sharp. This is in large part down to its powerful jaw muscles, which give it a far larger bite force for its body size than most other rodents. Beavers’ teeth grow continuously throughout their lives. As beavers chew through tree trunks and bark, their teeth get worn down, so the continuous growth of their teeth ensures they always have a sharp set of teeth available to them. To further assist them in their chewing endeavors, beavers have strong jaw muscles and significant biting strength. Beavers can unleash nearly 180 pounds of biting force per square inch, compared to the human’s 88 pounds.

Beavers are well known for the thunderous warning slaps or splashes of their tails that alert other family members to the presence of intruders. A beaver colony marks an area by building mounds of mud near the lodge and dam near trails. On these mounds, which usually vary from 2-7 in numbers and are 5.0-7.5 cm (in height and 30 cm in diameter, colony members place secretions from the castor sacs and anal glands.

Beavers causing problems for Wake County drivers

ByRobert Richardson │February 22, 2019

CARY, N.C. (WNCN) – Some critters are causing problems for drivers on Green Level Church Road.

Mayor Harold Weinbrecht announced in his weekly Town of Cary blog that beavers are to blame for the bump in the road. The rodents built a dam in storm pipes near the intersection of Green Level Church Road and O’Kelly Chapel Road, and the rerouted water caused the pavement to settle.

There is a significant dip in the road on the far right northbound lane. It filled with rain water this week, and vehicles that hit the dip caused big splashes Friday.

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission biologist Falyn Owens said it is illegal to live trap and relocate beavers in North Carolina. 

“Beavers are territorial and do not tolerate new beavers that have been relocated into their territory, leading to aggressive encounters,” Owens said by email.

Beaver knocks out power to thousands after chewing down pole near Prince Albert

Oct 30, 2017

The city of Prince Albert, Sask., and a large chunk of northern Saskatchewan lost power for about an hour after a beaver partially chewed through a power pole southeast of the city on Sunday.

SaskPower is calling this a very Canadian problem.

“This was one of our larger wooden power poles and there was ample evidence of beaver damage at the base of it, so beavers had been chewing away at it,” said spokesperson Jonathan Tremblay.

Animals account for roughly one-third of the power outages experienced by SaskPower customers.

“Usually, it’s birds flying into substations, or squirrels chewing at things they shouldn’t,” he said.

In May, the Crown utility had to repair another line after beavers gnawed through a pole in the southwest.

Beavers are more active this time of year, as young beaver kits are pushed out of lodges.

While SaskPower was able to reroute power around the area, people near the village of Weldon were without power for nearly five hours.

C Tech Corporation can offer a solution to overcome the damage caused by beavers. Rodrepel™ is a low toxic, low hazard, non-carcinogenic and environmentally safe, anti rodent additive. The masterbatch of Rodrepel™ can be incorporated into polymer pipes, silage bags, agriculture films, mulches, etc.

Rodrepel™ liquid concentrate can be added to paints which can be applied to the fencing of trees, house, croplands, etc.

Rodrepel™ lacquer can be directly applied to the fences, installed pipe, wires, and cables, etc. 

Rodrepel™ does not kill but repel. It is engineered using a unique set of complex compounds. It follows 6 pronged strategy which is extremely effective on rodents like a squirrel, rat, beaver, gopher, paca, marmot, etc.

Rodrepel™ is cost-effective, inert, thermally stable and does not degrade on exposure to heat and sunlight. It does not volatilize and does not degrade in the soil. It is RoHS, RoHS2, REACH, EU BPR, NEA compliant and FIFRA exempted.

You can thus contribute to the environment by using our products.

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com if you’re facing problems with rodents and get best remedies to combat the pest menace.

Also, visit our websites:

1] http://www.ctechcorporation.com/
2] http://www.rodrepel.com/
3] http://www.termirepel.com/
4] http://www.combirepel.com/

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Rats and mice cause 8% of all house and building fires in the U.S. In U.S. average 1.6 million home and building catch fires each year. In the last 10 years, more than 194,000 people have been injured in home and building fires, and almost 37,000 people have died. Rodents started 8% of all these fires by chewing through electrical wiring and causing a short circuit. Plastic insulation surrounding electrical wiring exists because electricity is quite hot when it goes through wires. The insulation protects nearby objects from getting overheated. However, when a rat or other rodent has been going after your wires, they leave nothing left but the hot, exposed metal. From there, it’s only a matter of time before the wire either short circuits, causing a spark, or heats up and causes something nearby to ignite. Usually, household insulation or other debris that are stirred up by the rodents are what sets fire.

In the U.S., 30% of all homes contain unwanted rodents. In fact, these rats and mice are known as ‘commensal’ rodents. The term means ‘eating at the same table with’ humans, and they’re called that because they thrive in close proximity to people.

All rodents have prominent, continually growing incisor teeth. Because these teeth never stop growing, rats and mice find pleasure gnawing every day to wear down their teeth. If they don’t, the incisors grow too big to gnaw food, and they can´t feed properly. That’s why they like to make their home where there’s plenty to chew on: between walls, in drop ceilings and subfloors, in attics and garages, behind appliances, and in pantries. 

One pair of mice can make 15,000 more mice in just one year. In addition to starting fires, rats and mice carry 35 known diseases, some of them are fatal, so it’s important to get them out of your home pronto. The solutions such as poison and traps are dangerous to children and pets, leave a mess for you to clean up, and don’t work all that well. 

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Monster rats the size of CATS are roaming the streets – and they aren’t afraid of humans

• Giant rats have been running wild through a suburb of Auckland in New Zealand
• One man saw six to 10 rats running up a bank, 30 metres from the shops
• The infestation is said to be a result of locals feeding the wild chickens 

By Charlotte Karp For Daily Mail Australia | 13 June 2019

Giant rats that are as big as cats are terrorizing people in Auckland – and they aren’t afraid of humans, locals say.   

The monster rodents are running wild through Auckland, New Zealand, and authorities are struggling to get the situation under control, Stuff reported.

A local woman said she had to get rats removed from her roof and that she’d seen rats running up the road for the first time in 11 years, while local man Rob Wadmore managed to record the animals running around near a car park.

‘I saw an estimate of about six to 10 rats running up the bank, they didn’t seem scared of human beings .. they were 30 metres from the shops,’ Mr Wadmore said.

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RATTED OUT 

Family-of-five driven out of their home by plague of ‘2ft long’ U-bend swimming monster rats

The 36-year-old dad says he saw one of the enormous rats swimming back up the toilet

By Annabel Murphy │16th April 2019

A FAMILY have been driven out of their home by a plague of U-bend swimming monster rats.

John Rising, 36, said he and partner Joanne had no option but to quit the rented home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with their three sons.

He said they were terrified that the rodents, some nearly 2ft long, would bite them and spread a killer disease with their germs and urine.

John has killed several rats but says more infest the mid-terrace property rented from Cheltenham Borough Homes.

He said: “It started about two months ago and it’s got so bad that we have moved out because the rats were in the kitchen.

“About a month ago my 14-year-old son was in the bathroom and saw one actually in the toilet.

“He called me and I rushed to have a look. I could see the rat’s tail and bum swimming back out of toilet, back up the U-bend.”

C Tech Corporation has come up with a solution called Rodrepel™ which will put people at ease by protecting their house from rats and mice. Rodrepel™ is a product resulting from smart technology and green chemistry. Rodrepel™ is an extremely low-toxic, extremely low hazardous and environment-friendly aversive and repels all rodents/animals. It is an anti-rodent aversive specially developed for a range of polymeric applications including films, wires, cables, etc. It is also available in the liquid Concentrate form which can be mixed with the paints and lacquer which can be coated on the surface to keep the rodents at bay. Rodents are further restricted from biting the applications treated with our products due to advanced mechanisms.

The newly developed product is in the form of a spray which can be sprayed on any surface to protect it from pest damage. The spray is compatible with most of the surfaces.

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Gophers live underground and are active all year round. They spend almost all their time in underground tunnel systems, and you might be unaware that gophers are living under your turf unless you see a gopher hole and mound.

Gophers are extremely well adapted and built for an underground existence. The gopher lives most of its life beneath the surface where it digs a burrow system. A gopher can create large mounds that may cause damage to passing farm equipment. Additionally, its tunnels often interfere with underground utilities, irrigation and sprinkler systems, dams, fields, and homeowners’ gardens. 

Pocket gophers are destructive diggers that can be a nightmare for property owners. They use their sharp claws and teeth to excavate underground tunnels and burrows, which can quickly lead to extreme lawn damage. 

Gophers are highly active in the spring and summer. They cause damage to the lawns and plants due to burrow systems that contain 500 or more tunnels that are 6″ to 1′ in depth. They can also cause damage to the slope by undermining erosion. Gophers have teeth that are capable of gnaw-damage to water lines and sprinkler systems. They are solitary and, compared to other pests, are relatively slow breeders.

Go away gophers: Calgary homeowners frustrated with rodents

May 22, 2019

Calgary’s long winter is over and many people are enjoying the sunshine but there are some unwelcome residents among many gardens too.

Gophers or Richardson’s ground squirrels may look cute to the casual observer but experts in the pest control field say the rodents are a big nuisance.

“They do a lot of damage by tunneling. They go about one metre deep and just do a lot of destruction when they burrow,” says Conrad Mueller, president of Absolute Pest Control.

Strychnine ban for gophers pondered

By Barb Glen │August 9, 2018 

Health Canada proposes to end the use of strychnine to control ground squirrels and is seeking public input on the matter until Sept. 27.

The proposal stems from a regular review of pesticides under the Pest Management Regulatory Agency.

In its consultation document, Health Canada said strychnine kills ground squirrels, also commonly called gophers, but it also kills non-target species that might eat either the poison-treated grain used to attract gophers or scavengers that eat the dead rodents.

Trapping is not the appropriate way to deal with these gophers. Usage of smoke balls is extremely lethal.

C Tech Corporation provides you with an eco-friendly solution against gophers. Our product Rodrepel^TM is an extremely low toxic, extremely low hazard, non-mutagenic anti-rodent, and animal aversive repellent. It can be effectively used against gophers and other similar damage causing rodents like voles, moles, rats, etc.

RodrepelTM is a product manufactured based on green technology. Our product is RoHS, RoHS2, RoHS3, NEA, APVMA, EU BPR compliant, and FIFRA exempted which proves the low toxic and environmental safety concerns.

Rodrepel^TM  is available in the form of masterbatch, liquid concentrate and lacquer.

Rodrepel^TM Masterbatch is incorporated while processing in polymer-based products such as drip irrigation pipes, electric supply cables, etc.

Rodrepel^TM Liquid concentrate is to be mixed in paints in proper proportion and Rodrepel^TM lacquer is a direct topcoat application which can be applied on fences, installed products, walls, pipes, etc.

If you are facing nuisance caused by rodents, write about it to us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com

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Voles may be small, but they are a force to be reckoned with. If these underground, fast-breeding varmints have ever invaded your lawn or garden, you may know what we’re talking about. Voles may not be life-threatening and maybe no one has ever died from having them in their yard, but we’re betting the problem is front and center for those of you have had their lawns destroyed by these covert invaders.

Vole runways are formed by a combination of voles eating the grass blades and the steady traffic from their shallow underground burrow to seek food along the runways. Runways are often hidden by ground cover, so you may have to pull back overhanging cover to find them.

The opening to a vole burrow can be identified by neat, round holes that measure an inch or two in diameter. Vole holes can be found in open turf or hidden underground cover, plantings or mulch. Voles mostly thrive on small plants, yet like shrews, they will eat dead animals, and like mice or rats, they can live on almost any nut or fruit. Additionally, voles target plants more than most other small animals, making their presence evident. Voles readily girdle small trees and ground cover much like a porcupine. This girdling can easily kill young plants and is not healthy for trees or other shrubs.

Let’s have a look at following pieces of evidence revealing damage caused to lawns by voles:

Beware a coming invasion of voles

Prolific breeding voles can wreak havoc on a lawn or garden

By JOAN MORRIS 

I could not figure out what was causing furrows in my lawn until one morning at first light, I saw a mouse running in the trail and grabbing a quick bite of grass before retreating back under the plants for cover.

Mice are not, as a rule, big grass eaters; however, you don’t have mice, you have voles. The paths you see in your grass are called runways, and they connect the holes in the vole network. The opening to the tunnels are usually concealed beneath vegetation.

Voles ripping up yards across Winnipeg

One exterminator said voles are hitting some parts of the city hard this spring.

By Michelle Bailey For Metro

“The newer areas of the city have definitely been hit hard,” said Taz Stuart, Director of Technical Operations with Poulin’s Exterminators. “But really, they are causing problems all over because the heavier the snow, the better they can survive the winter.”

Stuart explained “predators can’t hear them scurrying under all of that snow,” and Winnipeg became a vole haven following heavy snowfall in late December.

Typically, voles welcome spring by creating visible tunnels, or “runways” at or near the surface that are about two inches wide by eating grass blades and zipping back and forth on consistent paths.

Hence from the evidences, we can conclude that though the voles are small they cause huge damage to grass, weeds, roots of plants, etc. in lawns.

Voles grow to 3–9 in (7.6–22.9 cm), depending on the species. They can have 5 to 10 litters per year. Gestation lasts for three weeks and the young voles reach sexual maturity in a month. As a result of this biological exponential growth, vole populations can grow very large within a very short time.

So, they can’t be neglected, and we need to use some protective measures against them. There are many control measures to be used to control voles like exclusion, habitat modification, trapping, etc. but they are ineffective.

We, at C Tech Corporation, can provide you with an effective solution. Our product Rodrepel^TM is developed by using green technology. It is extremely low toxic, low hazard, low concern, and non-mutagenic animal aversive. It is durable at extreme climatic conditions.

Our product is ROHS, ROHS2, ROHS3, EU BPR, NEA compliant and FIFRA exempted. Our product does not cause harm to target as well as non-targeted species. It just repels them from the applied product. It works on the mechanism of fear, discomfort, aversion, training, and conditioning.

Rodrepel^TM is available in three forms namely masterbatch, liquid concentrate, and lacquer. Masterbatch can be incorporated into applications like fencing, wires, cables, water pipes, etc. The liquid concentrate can be mixed in paints to repel voles from the area required. Lacquer form can be directly applied to the application such as wooden fences, guards, etc. Hence by using Rodrepel^TM the lawns can be prevented from vole damage effectively and considerably.

The Rodrepel^TM rodent repellent spray can be used by anyone and is an easy to use product. It can be sprayed in the gardens, garages, warehouses, storerooms, etc. to keep the rodents away from lawns.

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com if you’re facing problems with rodents and get best remedies to combat this menace.

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Why do we visit RESTAURANTS?

Restaurants are visited for trying out different variety of food and having a bit of relaxation time.

The quality of the food offered is all that matters when one visits a restaurant, isn’t it?

Restaurants are rated on the scale of quality as well as hygienic of food maintained. The best the service provided by the restaurants the best it is rated. The primary factors of the differentiation of restaurants are the food offered, the cuisine or the style of offering. Beyond this they may differentiate themselves on factors like speed, formality, location, cost, service or novelty themes.

A restaurant is inspected by the FDA twice in a year and examined on the basis of hygiene, safety, and cleanliness. The inspections often take an hour to complete. Inspectors look for anything that could present a health concern to the public. If any of the violations are noted then the restaurants are banned until the violation reason is completely eradicated. Following are the pieces of evidence of some of the restaurants being closed and infestation reported.

Woman shares video of BABY RAT she found in her takeaway

By Michael Moran │10^th May 2019

A woman has posted a video to her Facebook page which appears to show a baby rat that has been cooked in a takeaway noodle dish.

Deyanira Cortes who lives in Columbus, Ohio, uploaded the video which shows her picking up the tiny ‘rodent corpse’ with a fork to give viewers a good view of the creature’s “little hand and face.”

She says that she bought the sickening dish from Yihi Japan in the Polaris Fashion Place shopping mall in Columbus and has shared the video as a warning to others.

The video emerges in the same week that a Scottish woman complained of finding an entire chicken head in her takeaway.

Deyanira wrote: “Please don’t buy from Yihi Japan that’s inside the Polaris Mall.

“I bought a chicken teriyaki and got a rat foetus cooked in the food… it’s disgusting.

“Please share so no one buys from there, and we can avoid someone getting sick.”

Takeaway shut down over mice infestation

By Daniel Binns │ April 18^th 2019

A PIZZA HUT restaurant was closed and fined £8,000 after its kitchen was found covered in mouse droppings.

The takeaway was visited by council inspectors who discovered evidence of an ‘extensive and active’ infestation of the rodents, a court heard.

There was a dead mouse in the cellar and droppings in food preparation areas and in a dough-proving machine.

The Swansea restaurant — which also had mold on the walls and damps in the cellar — was shut down as it posed an ‘immediate risk of injury to health’.

All of a sudden, a shut-down notice hampers your restaurant’s growth and also the reputation within a county gets lowered. This is all because of the tiny pests called RODENTS.

Rodents such as mice and rats are of more concern because they are the main culprits of the restaurant closures. Rats and mice are attracted to the restaurants due to the availability of the food and warm habitat.

There are many access areas through which this pest enters your restaurants like sewage lines, air ducts, basin outlets, etc. Such areas cannot be totally separated from the surroundings and hence the infestation cannot be removed very easily.

You can easily find out the infestation in your restaurant by the signs of rodent infestations as rodent droppings all over the area, polymer-based application bitten up, the peculiar smell of rodent urine, etc. The rid of rodent infestation is important as the rodents are the carriers of many diseases and they can be easily transferred to people via the food they eat in your restaurants.

For maintaining the hygiene and safety at your restaurant against the pesky restaurants we can help you by providing you with an eco-friendly solution which is Rodrepel^TM.

Rodrepel^TM is manufactured by CTech Corporation using green technology. The restaurants can be well protected by using our product Rodrepel^TM. It works on the mechanism like fear, discomfort, aversion, training and association & conditioning. As stated earlier the product is a green technology product which does not kill the rodent but only repels thus maintaining the ecological balance of the earth.

Our product is available in four forms viz. Masterbatch, Liquid Concentrate, lacquer, and wood polish additive.

Rodrepel^TM Masterbatch can be incorporated in the polymer-based applications while processing them. The polymer applications like wires, cables, pipes, polymer made kitchen equipment, etc. can be manufactured by using our masterbatch.

Rodrepel^TM liquid concentrate can be mixed in paints in proper proportion and cover the entire area of infestation by paints. Rodrepel^TM in lacquer form can be directly used as a top coating over the application. The wood polish additive is also a topical application which can be mixed in the wood polish and applied on wooden surfaces.

Our newly developed product is in the form of a spray, called Rodrepel^TM rodent repellent spray which is an easy to use product. The spray can be sprayed on infested areas and equipment that need protection from rodents.

Our product solutions do not interfere with the properties of the application and in plus point provides complete protection against the harmful pest like rats and mice.

Contact us at technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com if you’re facing problems with rodents and get best remedies to combat this menace.

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http://www.rodrepel.com/
http://www.termirepel.com/
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