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A free, proprietary database of quality technical data on adhesives, coatings, and sealants for engineers designing industrial applications. It contains over 35,000 materials from over 70 manufacturers, and is used by thousands of engineers.

No, it's completely free.

Gluespec combines manufacturer data and the industry knowledge of technical experts. Its grid interface produces a dynamic online spreadsheet pre-populated with curated technical data engineers need. The database recommends materials for your project based on your customized search for a specific application or specific data points. Grid data is filterable, sortable, and customizable by every property in the database, including specific gravity, viscosity, impact strength, cure time, and temperature resistance, as well as by manufacturer, material type, industry, substrate, chemistry and hundreds more.

The grid format lets users scan all relevant properties and materials and compare them on one screen. Unlike other materials sites that start out with less data and make you search for more, the Gluespec grid starts out with lots of information that you can quickly and easily narrow down to two or three materials for testing.

As a service to the industrial design engineering community. The Gluespec grid was developed by engineers based on feedback from engineers. Like you, we wanted a better solution than sorting through messy catalogs, playing phone tag with suppliers, or difficult, time-consuming web searches. We want to make the complicated decision-making processes of choosing the right adhesive system easier and less cumbersome for engineers.

To access the full power of the database. Registering lets you view more than 10 materials per search, and gives you access to material test methods, complete technical details, key specifications, and comparable materials. You also get the ability to save your project searches so you can share them with a colleague.

Accelerators/activators, adhesives, anti-static materials, casting/moldmaking materials, coatings, conformal coatings, debonders/removers, doming materials, liquid cleaners, lubricants, masking materials, paints, pottants/encapsulants, primers, repair & maintenance materials, sealants, solders, substrate cleaners, threadlockers, and many more.

Gluespec's datasheets contain technical data, test methods, best practices, and information on comparable materials. All of it is quality-checked during data entry. Also, we annually check manufacturer data on all materials and update Gluespec as needed if new data sheets have been released.

The backbone of Gluespec is SpecEngine®, designed to combine a spreadsheet format with algorithms in order to conduct deeper, multifaceted searches for specifying materials. Materials are selected using a proprietary algorithm that delivers results based on likelihood of success for an application. The algorithm was developed with the help of engineers, chemists, and other technical experts.

No problem. If you can't find the data you need on the site, we can research it and find it for you at no cost.

Gluespec is a global representation of data from multiple manufacturers not usually found in one place, and that data is curated and quality checked by us, not just selected and posted by manufacturers.

The data also goes deeper than what's on most materials sites. For instance, we offer test method information so engineers can compare the data on the grid or the datasheets with their production or operation environment.  We do this because data without this context is useless. We know this because we're engineers, too. And we offer free access to our technical team of experts.