As many of you have probably seen in Henry's recent post from Ballet, “Over the past year Ballet’s costs of manufacturing have increased by 97%. The same forces many of you face in your businesses drove this rise: supply chain disruptions from geopolitics.” Due to these dramatic increases in their costs, as of December 2024, Ballet suddenly increased pricing to their global distributors by over 50%. At Synoptic Products, we spent the month of December determining if there was any way we could absorb these increases.

Unfortunately, the reality is that we can't afford to do so. As a result, prices for Ballet probes will increase similarly for all US and Canadian customers, effective immediately.