Scimetrics Announces Staff Promotions, New Headquarters

WELLINGTON, Colo. — Scimetrics, the manufacturer of the Kaput products, promoted Allison Siekkinen (The Kaput Molelady) to sales manager. She will oversee all territories and is based out of the Colorado headquarters. Scimetrics assigned Jeremy Lewis as technical sales representative for the Northwest and Leslie Abeyta as technical sales representative for the Texas Territory. Scimetrics recently employed Jason white as technical sales representative for the Southwest Territory, which includes California, Arizona, and Nevada. Frank Jimenez was recently hired as the production manager for the Colorado warehouse/distribution center. He will also be used in further development of the Latin American Market.

In other Scimetrics news, the company announced the following:

• It has moved into a new manufacturing facility in Wellington, Colo.
• Scimetrics’ general use product Kaput Rat & Mouse Bait is now available in place packs. Voles have been added to the label.
• Scimetrics has introduced the general use product Kaput Pocket Gopher Bait in a loose grain for the control of all North American Species.
• Scimetrics was a sponsor and Richard Poché consulted for field research that could lead to effective control of bubonic plague in developing nations. Scimetrics and a grant from the CDC funded the independent laboratory, Genesis Laboratories, Inc. (Wellington, Colorado), which recently completed a field study in indigenous villages of NW Uganda near the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bubonic plague, carried by wild and commensal rodents still affects many people in east and southern Africa, especially Uganda and the DRC. Rodent disease epidemiologist, Jeff Borchert, led the field study with 3 Genesis scientists, including Jeff Mach and Timothy Linder. The black rat, Rattus rattus, was introduced to the area last century and now is an epizootic host of the disease. The commensal rats become infected with the disease, by encountering wild rodents in the habitat surrounding villages. When infected rats die, their fleas are released into the environment and can seek humans and potentially infect them with the deadly disease. The field research was very successful and could lead to low cost plague control in these areas.