KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Nisus Corporation announced an important milestone of 2 million homes pretreated with Bora-Care in the U.S. 

On May 24, B&B Exterminating Company of Jacksonville, Fla., treat the 2 millionth home with Bora-Care.  The home is being built by Providence Homes in the beautiful Liberty Cove at Crosswater subdivision in Nocatee.

On site for the treatment were representatives from Nisus, Providence Homes and B&B Exterminating

“We have been very deliberate and methodical in working to transform the building and pest control industries to utilize a more sustainable termite treatment,” says Lee Barrett, Nisus Vice President, Pest Control Division. 

Since builders started using Bora-Care, they have saved 637 million gallons of termiticides from being pumped into the ground, Nisus reports.  Providence Homes, along with other builders across the country, has adopted Bora-Care treatments because they eliminate the wood as a food source rather than treating the soil under a home. Bora-Care is cost-effective and easy to integrate into their building process and it saves up to one full day of cycle time.  The active ingredient in Bora-Care is a borate mineral salt which penetrates and remains in the wood for the life of the wood.  Treating during construction is ideal because it’s the only time you have access to all of the wood, according to Nisus. Bora-Care is also backed by a renewable 30-Year Limited Warranty for the pest company.

B&B Exterminating has been serving Jacksonville since 1938 and is still family owned and operated.  Ranked as one of the top five pest control companies in Jacksonville by the Jacksonville Business Journal, B&B’s first interest is to protect their clients’ homes and families from the ground up. 

“Termites are a big problem in Florida and you need a strong arsenal to combat them.  Applying Bora-Care to the home creates a tremendous first line of defense,” says Cliff Wheeler, Manager of B&B Exterminating Company.

To learn more about Bora-Care go to: http://nisuscorp.com/builders/products/BORA-CARE.

 

FAIRFAX, Va. — QualityPro announced that it’s been named the recipient of a $7,500 Health Homes Workforce Development Mini-Grant through a contract between the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH). The grant will help fund the development of its new public health service certifications coming this fall.
 
“We are grateful to the National Center for Healthy Housing and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for their generous support and for seeing the value in helping to create these new credentials, The public health certifications will give pest management professionals a unique opportunity to distinguish their services that protect against mosquitoes, rodents and other pests that threaten public health,” said Allison Allen, executive director of QualityPro. “Many pest control professionals are seeking credible resources to prove their professionalism when it comes to creating healthier, pest-free environments for their customers, and the public health service certifications will do just that.”
 
NCHH awarded 10 mini-grants of $7,500 each to organizations in California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia. The funding aims to help communities incorporate healthy homes activities into their healthcare policies and build a pool of knowledgeable and reliable community health workers (CHWs) trained in the healthy homes principles.
 
Governments, educational institutions, public housing, nonprofits and tribal communities were all eligible to submit a proposal. This is NCHH’s second year offering grants for workforce development.
 
To learn more about QualityPro or to apply for accreditation, visit www.npmaqualitypro.org.

With warm weather comes stored product pests, including cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles, flour beetles, indianmeal moths, rice weevils, sawtoothed grain beetles and warehouse beetles. These pests can wreak havoc in food processing plants as they are not only detrimental to a food safety audit, but they can cause major disruption in production due to product infestations. 

McCloud Services shares expertise on how to prevent and eliminate stored product pests this summer to maintain a clean audit score and meet new FSMA requirements. McCloud experts authored three articles to share how food processing plants and retail stores can eliminate stored product pests before an infestation occurs.

See the articles below to learn the different prevention methods for stored product pests as it relates to food processing plants, retail stores and consumers’ homes.

• Keeping Pet Food from Becoming Pest Food follows the journey of a bag of dog food, discussing the types of stored product pests that threaten pet food and how these pests can infest the manufacturer’s facility, a retail store and even the consumer’s home. It also provides insights on the different exclusion methods of stored product pests from these three locations.

• Keeping Indianmeal Moths Out of Your Food Facility discusses what an Indianmeal Moth is and shares its life cycle. The article then dives into an innovative control method called pheromone mating disruption that allows large facilities to eliminate stored product pest populations without closing down the plant.

• Spring Welcomes Stored Product Pests details the most common stored product pests food facilities need to be aware of with the arrival of warm weather. It also shares information on pheromone monitoring programs as these are now a critical requirement to the American Institute of Baking (AIB) food safety standards. 

QUEBEC CITY — For family company Maheu&Maheu, June not only signals the beginning of summer… or the massive arrival of seasonal pests that triggers the most active period of the year. No, June marks its anniversary and this year the company is celebrating its 85th. To kick-off celebrations, all employees and their families joined members of the Maheu Family at the Valcartier Hotel April 7-8. There were more than 350 at the banquet of the Horace Award Ceremony, an annual event of recognition for the employees of which 80 are shareholders. Top management took this opportunity to present the Serge-Boutin Excellence Scholarships to the employees' children and the Julie-Maheu Merit Scholarships to the children of the Maheu family members.

With sales of nearly $20 million in 2017, Maheu&Maheu is the 2nd largest Canadian-owned company in the country and ranked 40th on this year's PCT Top 100 list. 

In an industry where prevention plays a leading role, exterminating or pest control were showing only one aspect of the work of the pest management specialist. In 1998, Maheu&Maheu dared to launch the term "gestion parasitaire" now widespread throughout the industry. "There is still work to be done to explain what we do because of the mysterious side related to our field but the public is gradually getting used to this relatively recent wording" said Michel Maheu, General manager.

THE SECRET TO LONGEVITY. In business, you cannot sit on your laurels. We must constantly renew ourselves and push the limits, not only at the technical level but also at the operational level. "All our decisions are made thinking long-term. The opening of share ownership to our employees in 1994 is certainly no stranger to the high level of satisfaction of our clients! Our customer retention rate is close to 92%" said Michel Maheu.

MAHEU&MAHEU TODAY. Today, Maheu&Maheu operates six regional offices located in London Ontario, Boucherville, Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Québec, Rimouski and Moncton in New Brunswick, covering a widespread territory. The company has also established strategic alliances with various partners to expand its coverage to all of Canada. Maheu&Maheu employs approximately 130 people.