News — product updates

We are excited to share with you that our first order of Garbage Can Fly Traps are waiting to be loaded aboard the shipping vessel Grete Maersk which will be departing from the port city of Ningbo, China this week and will be here in San Diego in just three short weeks after that, FINALLY!  Here’s a picture of our very ship! This really puts our global supply chain into perspective, doesn’t it? (This is how all that stuff we buy gets here). The delay has been due to our initiation into all that is involved in getting our product...

The Traps are nearly ready! We just returned this past weekend from China where we visited our manufacturer to see the first fly traps produced. There were many reasons we (Joylyn and I and our 3 year old son, Dakota) had for making a trip to China. The first and foremost being to ensure the recently completed molds were producing the right components and that the components fit together as they were designed.  For those who aren’t familiar with how injection molding works let us share with you what we’ve learned. Injection molding starts with the creation of a steel...