Northwestern Tools
Northwestern Tools: Premium Industrial Solutions
Quality Industrial Tools from Your Trusted Michigan Distributor for Northwestern Tools
Freer Tool & Supply distributes professional Northwestern Tools precision industrial components engineered for demanding manufacturing applications. As your trusted Michigan distributor for Northwestern Tools, we provide the complete range of over 2,000 domestic, high-quality components including hoist rings, spring and ball plungers, thread inserts, fixturing and locating components, knobs and handles, tooling components and clamping, and washers.
About Northwestern Tools
Northwestern Tools, a family run organization, opened for business on January 27, 1942 by Gene Thomeczek, who foresaw an industry need for quality machine tooling.
From our beginnings on Northwestern Avenue in Dayton, Ohio, the people at Northwestern Tools have continued to dedicate themselves to fulfillng this vision. Northwestern Tools is still owned and actively managed by the Thomeczek family, ensuring a continuation of this commitment.
For the last 75 years, Northwestern Tools has grown from an initial offering of just 4 products, to over 2,000 domestic, high quality components to service our customers.
This growth forced Northwestern to move to our present Hempstead Station Dr. location in 2018 to house the growing production needs.
Expanding Into New Markets
As we have continually grown our product lines, we have been able to expand into new markets and industries such as:
- Aerospace
- Medical
- Fasteners
- Lifting & material handing (with the addition of ADB hoist rings)
Adding Automation to Manufacturing Process
Recently, we added two new CNC (computer numerical control) machining centers and other automated specialized machinery to our manufacturing facility to improve our throughput and allow us to continue to offer low-cost, high-value products.
We constantly review our products and our markets for new items to introduce to our customers, and to make sure that we have the most complete offering in each one of our product categories.
Strong Employee Base
Now being run by a second generation of Thomeczeks, Northwestern has kept the "family atmosphere" alive within our employees, evidenced by our employee retention rate. A third of our employees have over 20 years with the company.
Reasons for Our Success
The years of growth at Northwestern Tools can be attributed to our original philosophy:
- Offer excellent quality products
- Produce products with American labor and American parts
- Offer at a reasonable price
- Sell directly and through a national network of industrial distributors
- Deliver promptly
- Ship the same day - achieved on 99% of all orders.
Though the majority of business comes from Northwestern's standard product line, special needs products can be developed to meet customer requirements.
Our story of success is simple. Take an idea, do it very well, mix in a good measure of quality, service, and same day shipping, and you have our commitment to you.
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10163HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10163HP
MPN: 10163HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10163P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 17.0 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10163P
MPN: 10163P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10164 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10164
MPN: 10164
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10164H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10164H
MPN: 10164H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10164HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10164HP
MPN: 10164HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10164P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10164P
MPN: 10164P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10165 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10165
MPN: 10165
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10165H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10165H
MPN: 10165H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10165HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10165HP
MPN: 10165HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10165P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10165P
MPN: 10165P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10166 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 21.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10166
MPN: 10166
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10166H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10166H
MPN: 10166H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10166HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10166HP
MPN: 10166HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10166P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 21.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10166P
MPN: 10166P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10167 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10167
MPN: 10167
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10167H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10167H
MPN: 10167H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10167HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10167HP
MPN: 10167HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10167P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10167P
MPN: 10167P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10168 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10168
MPN: 10168
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10168H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10168H
MPN: 10168H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10168HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10168HP
MPN: 10168HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10168P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10168P
MPN: 10168P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10169 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 30.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10169
MPN: 10169
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10169H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10169H
MPN: 10169H