A revolutionary label holder designed to stop motorists from having to go through the painstaking process of scraping off their car registration stickers every year is rapidly gaining traction in New South Wales.

A Sydney inventor and a former IT consultant, came up with the idea to create a reusable label holder for rego stickers when he found that, like him, most motorists regard the process of removing their windscreen registration labels as both messy and time consuming.

After extensive product and market research, which included communicating with the Road Traffic Authority, Mr Horwitz has launched Rego Mate, a holder that motorists can easily stick to their windscreen in the same place as they would normally put their registration sticker. Instead of having to peel or scrape off their older labels from the windscreen, users just stick their rego label onto a separate plastic refill, which slides easily into the holder.

The innovation patented product is already proving a hit, with more than 10,000 units having been sold to motorists across NSW since it was launched earlier this year, and Mr Horwitz is steadily working to take Rego Mate national. “I wanted to design a product that was low cost and high quality, and the main thing was that it had to be refillable,” Mr Horwitz says. “There was no point in having a product that you stuck on the windscreen and had to pull off every year so you were back to square one.

When we designed the refill and the holder, we wanted something that was easy, the same size as the rego sticker, that was transparent, UV protected and something that could take the heat range that a windscreen generates. Priced at $10.00, each Rego Mate holder includes a free refill - usually priced at $4.00 - and sticks to the windscreen using strong, clear double sided tape.