Roxan approached 4c Design to help them understand user requirements and decipher the legislation. We wanted to make life as easy and efficient as possible with a design that would allow a farmer with a large flock to tag each sheep without too much fuss. With the need in some cases for sheep to be tagged twice (once in each ear), it was clear that a multi-tag system would be required.

We created a design that would allow the user to load 20 tags into a magazine, fire tags through sheep ears and automatically load the next one into the jawset. Another feature of the design was a 'snap back' jaw that prevented damage to the ear after tagging by quickly releasing the new tag.

The TagFaster has now been in production for a year and has been very well received in a market that needed a product of this nature. Roxan iD have also received an innovation silver medal award from the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland for technical innovation.

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