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Illinois Tool Works Inc. or ITW is an American Fortune 500 company that produces engineered fasteners and components, equipment and consumable systems, and specialty products. It was founded in 1912 by Byron L. Smith. Today, it employs approximately 48,000 people[3] in hundreds of businesses across 55 countries,[4] and is based in Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. ITW has more than 17,000 granted and pending patent applications worldwide[4]. The company typically ranks in the top 100 of patent issuers in the U.S.[citation needed] It is ranked 414 on the Forbes Global 2,000.