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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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