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OCTOBER 2017 ISSUE Website: http://www.faopma.com

President: Mdm Huang Xiao Yun - (hxyun@cpca.cn)

Administrator: Catherine Yan - (info@faopma.com)

Editor: Doug Howick - (doug@tpaa.com.au)

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Building Integrity Integrity is a

universally recognized

virtue. It has been the

yardstick of a person’s

character and ethics

since the beginning of

recorded history.

The same is true for organisations.

The old saying goes “The way to conduct business

is to have honesty, and the way to profit in

business is to have trust”. Honesty and trust are

the two main components of integrity in the

business world and are vitally important to the

survival of any business in the marketplace.

Integrity is something we absolutely must possess

when we are trying to develop our industry, because

we are a service industry and as such, everything

we do will be based on the integrity we can

demonstrate to the customers we serve.

There is a lot of mistrust in the world nowadays;

from the theft of intellectual property, to game-

fixing, from consumer fraud to untruthful

governments. Some enterprises engage in systemic

fraud. These sorts of things have been eroding trust

between consumers and service providers.

The lack of integrity is destructive to the

community and it is our responsibility to provide

high-quality service with integrity.

We always preach that the customer is God in our

culture and God should also have real feelings. This

has everything to do with the way in which we

serve our customers. A warm greeting and flawless

service to all of them are by no means as important

as the trust they have in us.

“The way to conduct business is to have honesty,

and the way to profit in business is to have trust”.

This is much easier said than done. What we need is

consistency and persistence over time. If we can do

that, the commitment to integrity will become a

part of our industrial DNA and ingrained in the

culture of our organizations.

I believe that providing service with integrity is the

key to any organisation’s survival and

competitiveness. It is vital to our branding as an

industry and will put our organisations in the

position to succeed.

Let’s stand shoulder to shoulder and build

integrity together for the brighter future of our

industry!

Mdm. Huang Xiao Yun

FAOPMA President (2015-2017)

PPM News

NTACT

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Man believes daughter's soon-to-be

ex-husband planted termites

September 17, 2017 - BERLIN TOWNSHIP, Ohio

– NOW THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT … Ed.

A man in Berlin Township claims someone

intentionally placed termites in the attached

garage of his daughter's residence next to his,

according to the Erie County Sheriff's Office.

The man told deputies he was working at his

daughter's house, which he owns, when he

found a cardboard box in the garage that had

been devoured by termites. He also said he

found a chunk of wood infested with termites

in the landscape near his house. The man told

officials he believes the termites in his

daughter's garage may have come from the

chunk of infested wood.

The man said there was no damage to either his

or his daughter's house. He told deputies he

was going to contact an exterminator to inspect

both properties for termite infestation.

The man said he suspected his daughter's soon-

to-be ex-husband is responsible for planting the

termites. Since ending their relationship, the

man has committed other acts of vandalism

against his daughter's property, according to

Erie County sheriff's deputies.

The man also said he believes his daughter's

soon-to-be ex-husband is the only person, other

than himself and his daughter, that has the code

for the electronic garage door opener.

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line with the practice of fair reporting.

It is also relevant to note that neither the content

of articles nor the comments of the Editor of this

newsletter are necessarily endorsed by either

FAOPMA or its office bearers.

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ESA dishes out 2017 professional

entomology awards

By Joelle Harms | September 14, 2017

Prominent among the The Entomological Society of

America (ESA) annual awards, which recognize

scientists, educators and students who have distinguished

themselves through their contributions to entomology, is

the Recognition Award in Urban Entomology.

This award recognizes and encourages outstanding

extension, research and teaching contributions in

urban entomology and appropriately, the person to be

recognised in this category for 2017 is Dr. Brian T.

Forschler.

Dr. Forschler is professor of

entomology at the University of

Georgia, and P.I. for the

Household and Structural

Entomology Research Program.

He received three higher

degrees, all in entomology

specializing in insect pathology, with bachelor’s and

master’s degrees from the University of Kentucky, as

well as a doctorate from the University of Georgia. Dr.

Forschler has a teaching and research appointment that

includes teaching graduate and undergraduate-level

courses on urban entomology and IPM.

Dr. Forschler is chairperson for the Termiticide

Scientific Review Panel and is a member of the

ASPCRO Termiticide Label Review Committee and the

Georgia Department of Agriculture Structural Pest

Control Commission. He has had cooperative research

agreements with Madihol University in Bangkok,

Thailand; The RISH Institute at Kyoto University;

the BAM Institute in Berlin, Germany; and the

Vietnam Academy for Water Resources in Hanoi,

Vietnam.

He has organized 13 national and international symposia

on urban insect pest biology/management, according to

the ESA. He is author of more than 100 scientific and

popular press articles on household and structural insect

pests and has conducted training sessions for industry

and regulatory officials in the United States, Europe,

Australia, and Asia.

Brian and other winners will be honored at Entomology

2017, the organization’s annual meeting that will take

place on November 5-8, in Denver, Colorado.

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Singapore companies settle on Sigfox

for smart rodent control

By Jessica Twentyman - September 11, 2017

Two companies in Singapore have partnered to apply

LPWAN connectivity to the pesky problem of dealing

with unwanted rodent visitors.

Cre8tec, a rodent risk management company based in

Singapore, is the inventor of Ratsense, a pest

management system based on infrared sensors. These

sensors act as ‘electronic eyes’ that monitor and capture

real-time rodent activity around the clock. That data is

then sent to the cloud for analysis, in order to track and

map the movement and behaviour of rats.

In this way, property and facilities managers can build up

a picture of where these critters enter buildings, where

they set up home and breed, and the routes they

commonly use to get around. This, in turn, means traps

can be laid in the best places to catch them.

But connectivity can be a challenge in these installations.

Presently, Ratsense is connected to the cloud via cellular

networks or Wi-Fi. But in areas where there’s no

coverage – in basements, for example – transmitting data

to the cloud this way is difficult or costly, or both.

That’s where Unabiz, a local IoT specialist, comes in. It

has worked with Cre8tec to integrate Ratsense with

Sigfox’s low-power, wide area network (LPWAN)

technology, so that sensors can use this connectivity to

collect and transmit that data, allowing for larger scale

deployments and extending sensor battery life.

“The last two years have seen

a rise in rodent activity at a

global level,” said Deanne

Ong, director of Cre8tec.

“Rats have adapted well to

urban environments,

multiplying quickly in poorly

managed premises. Ratsense

will change how building

owners globally perceive and

mitigate rodent-related risks.”

According to Cre8tec, the National Environment

Agency of Singapore says that the key to effective pest

control is to identify the source and activity areas of rats.

Monitoring of the problem, meanwhile, must be carried

out on a continuous basis, so that recurrence of pests can

be tackled. However, physical monitoring of large

buildings is expensive and time-consuming – and

inspectors are unlikely to miss rodent activities at the

time of inspection. These rats aren’t stupid, after all.

Global ambitions

Through Unabiz, Ratsense can potentially make use of

the global Sigfox network, so Cre8tec is hoping to sell

the system to a much wider pest management market in

future. Here, it might find some competition. Pest control

giant Rentokil Initial, for example, has for some time

been experimenting with smart rodent traps equipped

with sensors that send data to a command centre, it has

built with partners Google and PA Consulting.

But for now, Cre8tec sees plenty of potential in the

APAC region, according to Deanne Ong, which she

sees as home to “numerous and untapped regions”

for smarter pest management.

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PCAP MEMBERSHIP OF FAOPMA

September 20, 2017

The Executive Committee of FAOPMA, is pleased to

confirm the acceptance of the PEST CONTROL

ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES, INC.

(PCAP) as a fully fledged member of FAOPMA as the

result of integration of FAOPMA and Pest Summit.

The acceptance of PCAP membership is in fulfilment of

the conditions stipulated in the Memorandum of

Agreement which is paramount for the success of the

integration.

The FAOPMA constitution [Chapter 2 Membership 4 (a)

Membership (i)], currently allows more than 2 member

associations from each country but the application must

be endorsed by the existing Country Member(s) before it

can be processed by the Executive Committee. We

received the endorsement of PEAP on Sept 19, 2017 as

a formality and today we announce the fulfilment of our

constitution requirements.

We welcome PCAP to the FAOPMA fraternity

and we look forward to long years of

participation and together with us - “One Voice”

representing our Pest Management Industry in

Asia and Oceania.

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A History of Pest Control

Doug Howick and Ion Staunton were long-term

leaders of the Pest Control Association, which started

back in 1963. They remember meeting the pioneers of

pest control and the scientists who shaped the

development of termite control products and

techniques, which continue "to deliver stress relief to

anxious home owners today." Now octogenarians,

these industry stalwarts thought they might be the

only two left who could write an entertaining yet

accurate history of our industry "while they still had

their marbles intact and before they too, became

history."

In their forthcoming book Colonies in Collision, the

authors have provided a history of termite control

and development of the industry, from the arrival of

the First Fleet to the development of modern termite

control products.

"We have gone right back to 1788 when colonies of

Coptotermes were waiting on the foreshores of

Sydney Cove for the colonists arriving on the First

Fleet. Wooden crates of sailcloth, calico and other

stores stacked on the ground disintegrated into splinters

when they were moved a few months later. These

humans had never seen anything like it - millions of

scurrying insects, like white ants...

"That was the dramatic start to the termite wars. We

decided to write the history of these colliding

colonies, which includes the years of termite dominance

as they welcomed the timber buildings that were

erected all over mainland Australia. Termites had

never had it so good.

Then in 1915, a dairy farmer in Tyagarah up near

Byron Bay, Bill Flick, became the first person in the

world to work out how to kill the termite colonies

that were attacking buildings," said Mr Staunton.

Entomologists were thin on the ground but botanists

and zoologists from state and eventually, federal

governments began to focus on insects, including

termites. Australia was soon leading the world in

termite research and the 'colonists' began winning

battles against the colonies.

Colonies in Collision includes a description of "the

biggest KFC store in the world" when the red and white

fumigation sheets of Rentokil were draped over the

Queensland Parliament House in 1979. It also covers

the battle for the bridges, when pest technicians from

Amalgamated Pest Control spent years camped out

along Queensland's railway lines inspecting and treating

termites intent on causing rail disasters. Many of the

smaller companies and personnel also have their stories

told.

Alongside colourful historical tales, the book examines

the development of physical termite barriers, including

the years of the organochlorines and the development

of baiting techniques.

Colonies in Collision (250pp) is to be

released later this year.

See: www.termiteer.com.au

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Why this FAOPMA event is so special? 1. Top speakers from around the world

2. AIB - this is the first time to have AIB certification in

FAOPMA

3. There will be over 50 exhibitors

4. Chiang Mai itself!

What you can get from this conference? 1. FAOPMA certification

2. AIB (required exam)

3. Genuine Samsonite Goody Bag (up to 150$ price-tag)

4. Amazing experience in Chiang Mai

5. Gala dinner at Royal Park Rajapruek (exclusive

lifetime experience)

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Snake comes out of AC and eats rat

- viral video not from Mumbai hotel

Twitter users were quick to find out that the hotel

named in the parody account’s tweet did not exist

MUMBAI Aug 12, 2017 - Hindustan Times

A parody account of veteran broadcaster David

Attenborough tweeted a video of a snake slithering back

into an air conditioner with a large rat in its mouth,

saying the footage had been captured at a Mumbai hotel.

Members of the social networking site soon found out

that no such hotel exists in Mumbai, but not before the

video went viral, garnering more than 14,000 retweets

and 22,000 likes. Others took longer to catch on,

believing that the account was a genuine one. Eventually,

people found the original video, up on YouTube, and

pointed out that it seemed to be shot in a hotel in China.

Flick Anticimex Appoints Group GM

Azeez Batcha Nazeer Ahamed, the Flick Anticimex

(Amalgamated Pest Control) Group general manager.

by RACHNA LAL, Suva - August 26

Flick Anticimex (Amalgamated Pest Control) has taken a

major leap in the industry with the appointment of

Azeez Batcha Nazeer Ahamed from India as its new

Group general manager in Fiji.

Mr. Ahamed is an Entomologist with over 25 years of

experience in the field of pest control, fumigation,

scientific storage of dry staples and bio-

decontamination. His knowledge extends to biology and

ecology of vectors, storage and food processing,

structural and rodent pests, knowledge and application of

pesticides and their effects and hazards to animal and

plant life.

Mohammed Tazim, managing director of Flick

Anticimex (Amalgamated Pest Control) said: “Having

Mr Nazeer here in Fiji means that we are the only Pest

Control Company in Fiji that has a full time

Entomologist on board to serve our customers when the

need arises. An expert in his field and with years of

experience he brings to the industry a level of

excellence at an international level.”

Visions for the firm

Mr. Ahamed stressed his vision for this firm was to

become the leader in the respective industry (i.e. pest

control, fumigation and hygiene and sanitation service).

“We are already on the ladder for continuous

development and we keep updating ourselves with new

knowledge and technologies to be the best in the

industry,” he said. This will enable us to solve any

concerns of our clients and in turn serve them better and

exceed their expectations.

The satisfaction of our clients is very important for

me and my team and thus we take every concern with

utmost seriousness and put it as highest priority to

solve them.”

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Rentokil is now a fast-growing

and focussed business!

Rentokil is cheaply valued relative to American peers

By Richard Evans - 20 SEPTEMBER 2017

Rentokil, the rat-catching firm, was laid low by the

determination of its former boss Sir Clive Thompson to

achieve 20pc growth in earnings every year come what

may. Ironically, the business is now in sight of

delivering that kind of growth – this time in a rather

more sustainable fashion.

In the 1990s Sir Clive (“Mr 20 per cent”) built the entire

organisation around the idea that it had to improve

earnings per share by that amount every year. This led to

all sorts of creative accounting and acquisitions, whose

essential worthlessness gradually became apparent.

The stock acquired pariah status in the City, Sir Clive

was ejected and a new management team set about

dismantling the conglomerate he had created and

returning Rentokil to its roots as a pest control business.

“When the new chief executive, Andy Ransom, was

appointed in 2013, he looked at the group, decided that

the core business was the best part of it and set about

disposing of the rest,” said Alasdair McKinnon, who

counts Rentokil among the top 10 holdings in his

Scottish Investment Trust portfolio. “When we looked at

the stock two years ago, we saw that it was on its way to

becoming a focused pest control business but that the

market was giving it no credit.”

He said this focus was allowing Rentokil to improve

profit margins in pest control. “For example, it is adding

to its network of sites in Britain. This allows it to

service customers with a round trip of, say, 50 miles

instead of 100, making its operations more efficient.

“It is adding these sites mostly by buying small existing

businesses, which are often owned by families that are

looking for an exit. As small, unquoted companies, these

outfits can often be bought cheaply, and Rentokil can

make further cost savings, for instance in staffing, when

they are integrated into its network.”

Rentokil is a very international business – North

America and Europe account for 39pc and 27pc of

revenues respectively, with 8pc from Asia and 8pc

from the Pacific region – but is pursuing the same path

of focusing on pest control overseas, although it hasn’t

managed to exit all its legacy businesses there yet.

Rat catching has other attractions as a business. It seems

immune to digital disruption (although technology such

as remote monitoring can make it more efficient) and has

proved resilient in the face of economic downturns.

“Pest control firms managed to increase prices by 3pc-

4pc a year throughout the financial crisis and we think

Rentokil can continue to raise prices by more than the

rate of inflation now,” McKinnon said.

“This, along with the small acquisitions it is making,

should produce decent growth. In fact analysts expect

earnings to rise by double-digit percentages for the

foreseeable future.” The shares have risen a long way

since McKinnon bought them about two years ago – and

since Questor tipped them at 140p in May 2015 – but he

believes that there is still scope for further improvement.

This is partly because Rentokil shares trade at a big

discount to American peers such as Rollins and

ServiceMaster. Rollins, for example, trades at 45 times

2018 earnings. Against this, Rentokil’s figure of 22 does

not look demanding, especially given the forecast for

sustainable and significant earnings growth.

Another point is that the highly rated US firms might bid

for Rentokil as a relatively cheap way to grow their own

business and improve margins – via the same kind of

efficiency measures that Rentokil itself is currently

pursuing.

The company’s return to the FTSE 100 in March this

year should also help it to appear on more investors’

radar.

McKinnon concluded: “Rentokil is no longer a

turnaround story; it’s recognised as a good company with

a very credible plan to deliver margin targets. Despite the

recovery in the share price we think there is sufficient

scope for further improvement to keep holding the stock,

although at some stage we will recycle the capital into

new opportunities.

“Sir Clive used the cash flows from the core business to

build a conglomerate of questionable quality. Investors

don’t allow firms to pursue the same ‘growth at any

price’ agenda these days, and the new management is

concentrating on maximising value from that profitable

core instead.”

Questor says: “Buy”

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The Most Important Event You

Cannot Afford to Miss

You are cordially invited to attend the First and

the Finest Integrated Pest Management

Convention, to be amongst the world class

invited speakers, and more than 60 exhibition

booths, showcasing today’s leading edge

technologies and services of the pest

management industry from around the world.

FAOPMA has a long 27 years of convention

history, and there have been 7 highly successful

Pest Summit conventions in the past. By

amalgamating both together, we now speak and

represent the pest management industry in Asia and

Oceania in one voice.

The 2-day “FAOPMA-Pest Summit 2017”

convention is the first convention after the merging

of the FAOPMA convention, and the Pest Summit

series. This convention will be focusing on the New

Perspectives in Urban and Public Health IPM in

Asia and Oceania. Every attendee will receive a

FAOPMA participation certificate, plus a 1-day

AIB Certification Program on “Basic Integrated

Pest Management for Food Plants” (any attendee

who passes the test will receive an AIB certificate).

This extraordinary convention is specially tailor-

made for pest management business owners and

their staff; chemical and equipment providers; food-

processing industry personnel and their staff,

QC/QA personnel, and other related businesses.

English will be the only medium in this conference,

but live simultaneous translation to other languages

can be arranged when the respective country

minimum registration number is met.

How to book? You can find at your local pest control

association in your country or

http://www.faopma2017.com/shop/

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Your best chance to meet the world top-experts in pest management industry

Prof. Dr. Chow-Yang LEE Prof. Dr. Theeraphap Prof. Dr. Faith OI Dr.BobbyCORRIGAN

CHAROENVIRIYAPHAP

Dr. Stephen DOGGETT Mr. Tony POULSEN Dr. Foong Kuan FOO Prof. Dr. Michael RUST

Dr. Motokazu HIRAO Dr. Christina LIEW Mr. Tomoki SUMINO Mr. Ola NORDH

Mr. Jon THOMPSON Prof. Dr. Dini MILLER

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FAOPMA-Pest Summit 2017 New Perspectives of IPM in Urban and Public Health in Asia and Oceania

The Empress Chiang Mai Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand

22 – 24 November 2017.

21 November 2017 - 1400 – 1800: Registration

22 November 2017

0700 – 0900: Registration

0900 – 1000: Opening Ceremony, Speeches and Tea break.

Welcoming speech - Organizing Chairman (5 min) Welcoming speech

- FAOPMA President (5 min) Welcoming speech –

- VVIP (if any) (10 min) - Opening Gambit (10 min)

Tea break and VVIP visiting exhibition booths (30 min)

1030 – 1115: Keynote lecture – Present Challenges and Issues Confronting the Pest Management

Industry and Vector Control in Asia

(Prof Chow-Yang Lee, Universiti Sains Malaysia)

1115 – 1215: Session 1: Urban and Public Health IPM in Perspectives (2 presentations)

What the world would be like without pest management

(Prof Faith Oi, University of Florida)

The principle of urban IPM

(Prof Michael Rust, University of California-Riverside)

1215 – 1330: Lunch

1330 – 1530: Session 2: IPM in Public Health (4 presentations)

The surveillance of arboviruses and IPM programme against vector mosquitoes in Australia

(Dr Stephen Doggett, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia)

- Community Engagement for Wolbachia – a New Technology

(Dr Christina Liew, National Environmental Agency, Singapore)

- IPM against dengue and Zika vectors in Thailand

(Prof Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap, Kasetsart University, Thailand)

- Books, backpacks and bugs: IPM in public schools

(Prof Faith Oi, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)

1530 – 1600: Tea break

1600 – 1800: Session 3: New Innovations in pest management (4 presentations)

- Sponsor speaking slot (Bayer)

- Sponsor speaking slot (BASF)

- SMART SYSTEM – Intelligent Solution for Sustainable Rodent Management -

(Dr Foo Foong Kuan, Anticimex Singapore)

- Application of the Principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to High

Dependency sectors including digital platforms for data capture and analysis -

(Jon Thompson, Rentokil Initial)

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23 November 2017

0830 – 1030: Session 4: IPM in buildings and structures (4 presentations)

- German cockroaches: Effective management of large infestations

(Prof Dini Miller, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA).

- IPM and Bed Bug Control: the importance of an industry standard

(Dr Stephen Doggett, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia).

- Managing subterranean termites in the urban settings

(Prof Michael Rust, University of California, Riverside).

- Why bed bug resistance is driving our need for effective non-chemical control

methods

(Prof Dini Miller, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA).

1030 – 1100: Tea break

1100 – 1230: Session 5: IPM and Pest Management Business (3 presentations)

- The Fundamentals for a Successful Merger in the Pest Industry

(Ola Nordh, Anticimex Group)

- How do Mergers and Acquisitions play a role in the strategic management of a

business? –

(Tony Poulsen, Rentokil Initial)

- Creating Excellence in Cockroach Baiting Programs

(Steve Broadbent, Ensystex)

1230 – 1330: Lunch

1330 – 1530: Session 6: IPM in Industrial Facilities (4 presentations)

- Rodent IPM in Factories, Manufacturing Plants and Warehouses

(Dr Bobby Corrigan, RMC Consulting).

- IPM program against stored product insects in food plants in Japan

(Tomoki Sumino, Nippon Calmic Ltd, Japan).

- - Sponsor speaking slot (Fuji Flavor)

- Sponsor speaking slot (Sherwood)

1530 – 1600: Afternoon Tea break

1600 – 1700: Session 7: IPM in Commercial Facilities (2 presentations)

Rodent IPM in supermarkets and shopping malls

(Dr Bobby Corrigan, RMC Consulting, USA).

- IPM implementation in big buildings for 9 years in Japan

(Dr Motokazu Hirao, Japan Pest Control Association).

1900 – 2230: Gala dinner and closing ceremony

24 November 2017 – AIB International Certification Program

0900 – 1700: Training for AIB Certification

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