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Introduction
With the phasing out of Methyl Bromide and the drawbacks of alternatives such as Sulphuryl fluoride and Phosphine, heat treatment has emerged as one of the most promising new insect pest treatments for some time.
Controlled heat will kill all stages of pest insects with various species having a slightly higher or lower threshold and this is done without causing damage to surrounding structures or electronics.
Thermokil Ltd is able to offer heat treatment equipment for the commercial treatment of mill, bakery and other food production machinery as well as empty silos, small rooms or sections of buildings. Successful treatments of whole buildings are now becoming more accepted, and heat treatment for bed bug control in difficult to treat bedroom furniture has proven very successful.
The major benefits of heat treatment are:
- No health & safety hazards from the process.
- Completely controllable and environmentally friendly.
- Kills all stages of insect life cycle.
- Reduced treatment time cf fumigation (hours vs days).
- No factory shutdown or exclusion of staff from adjacent areas during treatment.
The key to successful heat treatment is the understanding of how heat distribution occurs in different situations, and the management of our heat resources to maximise efficiency and eliminate potentially damaging situations, which have occurred with some other heat treatment technologies in Europe and particularly in the USA. Thermokil scientists have been running commercial and research treatments since 1998 and we can confidently say that we are the global market leaders. |
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