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GlobalSpec was founded in 1996 for engineers by engineers and leveraged its domain expertise and deep understanding of the online behavior and complex needs of the engineering and technical community to build its engineering search engines. The company is an Internet-based business that links buyers and sellers in the $500-plus billion electrical, electronic, mechanical, chemical and optical products markets. It has a registered user base of more than 2 million engineers and technical buyers, one of the world's largest registered communities of its kind. GlobalSpec continues to add new registered users to its community at the rate of more than 14,000 per week. Serving two markets that include engineers and technical buyers and the industrial suppliers marketing to them, GlobalSpec is the place where the engineering community conducts business. GlobalSpec is located in Troy, N.Y.