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 10263HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10263HP
MPN: 10263HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10263P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 17.0 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10263P
MPN: 10263P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10264 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10264
MPN: 10264
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10264H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10264H
MPN: 10264H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10264HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10264HP
MPN: 10264HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10264P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10264P
MPN: 10264P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10265 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10265
MPN: 10265
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10265H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10265H
MPN: 10265H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10265HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10265HP
MPN: 10265HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10265P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10265P
MPN: 10265P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10266 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 21.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10266
MPN: 10266
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10266H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10266H
MPN: 10266H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10266HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10266HP
MPN: 10266HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10266P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 21.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10266P
MPN: 10266P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10267 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10267
MPN: 10267
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10267H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10267H
MPN: 10267H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10267HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10267HP
MPN: 10267HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10267P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10267P
MPN: 10267P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10268 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10268
MPN: 10268
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10268H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10268H
MPN: 10268H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10268HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10268HP
MPN: 10268HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10268P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10268P
MPN: 10268P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10269 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 30.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10269
MPN: 10269
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10269H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10269H
MPN: 10269H