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 10257HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10257HP
MPN: 10257HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10257P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10257P
MPN: 10257P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10258 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10258
MPN: 10258
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10258H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10258H
MPN: 10258H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10258HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10258HP
MPN: 10258HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10258P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10258P
MPN: 10258P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10259 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 7.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10259
MPN: 10259
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10259H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10259H
MPN: 10259H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10259HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10259HP
MPN: 10259HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10259P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 7.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10259P
MPN: 10259P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10260 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10260
MPN: 10260
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10260H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10260H
MPN: 10260H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10260HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10260HP
MPN: 10260HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10260P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10260P
MPN: 10260P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10261 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.5 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10261
MPN: 10261
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10261H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10261H
MPN: 10261H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10261HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10261HP
MPN: 10261HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10261P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.5 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10261P
MPN: 10261P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10262 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10262
MPN: 10262
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10262H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10262H
MPN: 10262H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10262HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10262HP
MPN: 10262HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10262P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10262P
MPN: 10262P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10263 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 17.0 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10263
MPN: 10263
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10263H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10263H
MPN: 10263H