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The company<\/p>

A factory that started with a question about mosquitoes.<\/h1>

Dongguan Pittar Houseware Co., Ltd. has been manufacturing in Guangdong since 2003. The insect-control line grew out of a simpler business \u2014 houseware \u2014 and one stubborn problem: the traps our customers were buying did not match the mosquitoes they actually had.<\/p><\/div>

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We began by making houseware for export: moulded parts, metal frames, simple electrical goods. In the 2000s customers started asking for mosquito lamps, then for CO\u2082 traps, then for units that would survive a monsoon season on a hotel terrace. Each request pushed the same workshop into a new discipline \u2014 airflow, high voltage, solar charging, lamp ballast design.<\/p>

Today the company runs moulding, metal work, electronics assembly and packing on one site in Dongguan, and sells three product families to importers, distributors and pest-control operators. Six patents came out of that work, mostly about how air moves through a housing and how an insect is held at the mouth of a trap.<\/p>

What has not changed is the working method: build the tooling, test the prototype in the yard, and only then print a catalogue. It is slower than buying a design from a trading company. It is also the reason a customer can ask us why a model should work on their species and get a real answer.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

2003<\/p>

Year the workshop opened<\/p><\/div><\/div>

06<\/p>

Patents on trap geometry and airflow<\/p><\/div><\/div>

03<\/p>

Product families manufactured in-house<\/p><\/div><\/div>

01<\/p>

Site: Dongguan, Guangdong<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\"Assembly<\/figure><\/div>
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\"Packing<\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Why it matters<\/p>

Owning the tooling changes the conversation<\/h2>

When the mould belongs to the factory, a buyer can change a tray, deepen a housing or move a bracket without waiting for a third party to agree. When the electronics bench is in the same building, a ballast problem is a morning, not a shipment.<\/p>

That is the practical difference between a manufacturer and a trading company \u2014 and the reason our quotations tend to arrive with a drawing attached.<\/p>