New York, N.Y., June 12, 2007 – ThomasNet.com, the leading destination website for the industrial community, today launched the new ThomasNet.com Toolbar to provide industrial professionals with immediate access to hundreds of product catalogs, more than 20 million CAD drawings, industry news and more, all available on ThomasNet.com. The toolbar includes several new features to increase efficiency among users when accessing information from the site’s hundreds of thousands of suppliers, and is available at www.thomasnet.com/toolbarv2/Info_default.html.

“The new toolbar will quickly and easily put users in touch with all of the industrial suppliers listed on ThomasNet.com,” said Tom Marren, Director – Web Development, ThomasNet.com. “With the click of a button, industrial professionals can now access suppliers’ data, CAD drawings, industry news and more, saving our users valuable time and effort.”

Several beneficial options have been added to the toolbar, allowing industrial professionals to quickly and repeatedly access the information they need. New toolbar features include a:

• Supplier Data Button, providing a snapshot of the capabilities of the 675,000 suppliers indexed by 67,000 product and service classifications available on ThomasNet.com

• Customizable RSS Reader for readers to consolidate news from ThomasNet’s Industrial Newsroom and Industrial Market Trends blog

• Notes Button enabling users to record thoughts about any of the hundreds of thousands of sites visited, including the hundreds of online product catalogs available on ThomasNet.com

• Bookmarks Button to save favorite sites that can later be accessed from any computer, regardless of the toolbar being installed

Users can also choose to add buttons that provide immediate access to more than 20 million CAD drawings, as well as translate Web sites from English to the language of choice. The toolbar continues to provide a search function, privacy protection, pop-up blocker and access to personalized pages through MyThomas, ensuring industrial buyers can seamlessly locate the wealth of catalogs, CAD drawings and information available through ThomasNet.com.

The ThomasNet.com Toolbar is free of charge, and no registration is required for download.

About ThomasNetSM
ThomasNet (www.ThomasNet.com) helps industrial sellers reach the most qualified industrial buyers online and convert them into customers. Using best practices in industrial website development, ThomasNet creates websites for industrial companies that increase sales with searchable online catalogs, e-commerce capabilities, and downloadable CAD drawings. ThomasNet.com is the Internet’s leading vertical destination site for buyers of industrial products and services. With over 2 million visitors each month, ThomasNet.com is where decision-makers from companies of all sizes, Fortune 500 companies, the government and the military go to find suppliers and detailed product/service information. ThomasNet is part of Thomas Industrial Network, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Publishing Company, LLC.
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