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Potential for further products

Now they have to extend their product into new marketing areas exploiting its 'unique selling points' or USPs (G). These include:

• safety - no metal springs to fly off

• weather proof and corrosion free - all plastic

• low cost

• reliability.

Remember, TMS patented their design as a 'clamp' not as a clothes peg, so now they are considering future developments including:

• medical clamps

• horticultural cloche grips

• electrical uses such as on battery charger cables - no metal means total insulation.

You might think about the changes to the design that might be needed to carry out these tasks.

The Mono Bug Clamp production system

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