Dear Valued Customers,

We are writing to inform you that our company headquarters has recently relocated to a new address.

Effective October 1, 2024, our new address is:

33F Crystal Tower, 1-2-27, Shiromi, Chuo-ku, Osaka Japan 540-6033

TEL +81-66484-9341, FAX +81-66484-9342,

Please update our address in your records. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding.

Thank you for your continued support.  

Sincerely,

Ken Arai

Manager/ International sales

BURRTEC

Dear Valued Customer,

We’re writing to inform you about an exciting change in our product lineup – the Burrat
Samurai Armor Door Sweep (item #23506500), previously specified for mice, is now
effective against rats also.

No longer will you have to purchase two Burrat Samurai Armor products for mice and rats,
making purchasing in bulk easier knowing both rodents are controlled by one product!
Burrat Samurai Armor provides several benefits:

● Functional: Burrat Samurai delivers effective control through its reliable design
constructed with high-quality materials.
● Easy-to-Use: One product that takes minutes to install making it an even better tool
in your control of mice and rats.
● Buy in Bulk: Now with one Burrat Samurai Armor to control both rats and mice,
purchasing in larger quantities makes more sense.


Because of Burrat Samurai Armor’s tremendous effectiveness against both rodents, we will
be discontinuing the Burrat Samurai Armor Door Sweep (Rat spec), item #23506600, once
our current inventory is depleted.

We are always looking to provide the greatest pest control prevention products to help your
business and we’re happy our Burrat Samurai Armor now can be used for both mice and rat
control!

For more information, please visit our website at www.burrtecusa.com/burrat or
contact our sales representative. Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

Best regards,
BURRTEC CO LTD
1-4-12 Nakano-cho, Miyakojima-Ku, Osaka 534-0027, Japan

One of the biggest issues relating to rodent infestations in and around school grounds is the risks of respiratory diseases, including asthma, rat and mouse bites, and infections. Preventing this from happening is a health and legal issue that all schools face.

School IPM (Integrated Pest Management) starts with having a clear, concise plan on how to protect a school facility (all buildings and adjoining areas) from rodents. This plan will have the duties and responsibilities assigned, detail the types of products that are being used for rodent prevention, as well as the outside support on the team like a local pest management professional.

Why is this important: Without a plan, rodents can inhabit a school and their urine contains asthma allergens that can affect students and teachers as it becomes airborne.

Good aspects of a school IPM program include the following:

• Dry food storage – keep it clean, organized and put away. It helps to have it in containers or locked up so rodents have no access to it.
• Trash – make sure not only that it is removed daily from the school, but do not put trash bins up against the school building. Dumpsters should be 10-15 feet from the school.
• Food – any food that can be a source for rodents, from cafeteria or external sources like fruit trees or disposed wrapper and lunch bags, needs to be disposed of properly every day.
• Maintenance – this is essential on every school day …. Clean the floors in every room in a school building. Even if food isn’t stored near a far classroom, students bring fruit-flavored waters and other drinks along with backpack snacks everywhere throughout the day.

Protecting doorways from openings that allow rodents into school facilities is tremendously important, as well. Burrtec makes state-of-the-art door sweeps that are protected with stainless steel, specifically the Burrat Armor Samurai Door Sweeps.

Burrtec USA is a leading manufacturer of door sweep solutions, providing quality exclusion products to PMPs and building material suppliers. It is the North American division of Burrtec Co., Ltd., one of Japan’s largest pest control producers. To learn more about Burrtec, visit our U.S. website.

Stainless steel to rodents is like kryptonite to Superman – it stops them! One of the first things to know about stainless steel and rodents is to know how strong their teeth are.

Rats in particular have tremendously strong incisors that can chew through many objects, including glass, plastic, wood, and even many forms of concrete. Concrete! Mice can chew through many items, as well.

But stainless steel is one of the few products that rats cannot chew through, so being able to prevent them from entering through typical entries like around plumbing and other penetrations, as well as under doorways, is critical.

While the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) suggests the use of steel, so do many other organizations. One is the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America Solution Center, a website designed to provide proven building and pest-related facts to professionals and consumers.

The Department of Energy suggests always using pest-resistant building materials for all uses, especially when attempting to prevent rats and mice. This is where stainless steel is the most important, because using it as a door sweep product truly stops rats and mice from biting their way through and creating an opening.

Burrtec makes state-of-the-art door sweeps that are protected with stainless steel, specifically the Burrat Armor Samurai Door Sweeps. These products also stop voles, insects and bats!

Burrtec USA is a leading manufacturer of door sweep solutions, providing quality exclusion products to PMPs and building material suppliers. It is the North American division of Burrtec Co., Ltd., one of Japan’s largest pest control producers. To learn more about Burrtec, visit our U.S. website.

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Dr. Bobby Corrigan, one of the leading experts in rodent control, says that doors present many issues that can offer rats and mice entry points when not properly protected. He had some great insight about rodents and doors in both commercial and residential settings.

“Doors of all of all types are famous for letting in rodents,” says Dr. Corrigan. “You have typical front door of home, or you have the main door of a restaurant or anything like that. Often times, we don’t seal them correctly at the bottom, we leave that seal or gap because we don’t appreciate it when you’re standing up and you’re like 5’8” looking down a small gap of 6 mm you almost don’t see it. So, it’s the unseen open door of a closed door. It’s an open door for rodents.

“Doors of course come in different shapes and sizes we’ll have double doors in commercial accounts and in office buildings and hotels and even if we correctly seal them, we don’t often seal between the doors, that thing called the astragal gap.

“We get an ‘F’ in terms of school grades on how well we keep our doors sealed. And because of that rodents come in sometimes just at will. I don’t have any data to prove it, but it may be the number one type of gap for them.”

Corrigan’s tips:

• Check all doors, holes, and penetrations.
• Proceed down the path of Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
• Ensure that all doors are correctly sealed and have a device.
  
  

　
The most important method for preventing mice and rats from entering under doorways is by using quality door sweep products, like those manufactured by Burrtec.
Burrtec USA is a leading manufacturer of door sweep solutions, providing quality exclusion products to PMPs and building material suppliers. It is the North American division of Burrtec Co., Ltd., one of Japan’s largest pest control producers. To learn more about Burrtec, visit our U.S. website.