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 10269HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10269HP
MPN: 10269HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10269P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 30.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10269P
MPN: 10269P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10270 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 9.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10270
MPN: 10270
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10270H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10270H
MPN: 10270H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10270HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10270HP
MPN: 10270HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10270P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 9.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10270P
MPN: 10270P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10271 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 9.0 Initial x 18.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10271
MPN: 10271
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10271H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10271H
MPN: 10271H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10271HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10271HP
MPN: 10271HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10271P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 9.0 Initial x 18.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10271P
MPN: 10271P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10272 Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 7.0 Initial x 50.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10272
MPN: 10272
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10272H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10272H
MPN: 10272H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10272HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10272HP
MPN: 10272HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10272P Ball Plungers - Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 7.0 Initial x 50.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10272P
MPN: 10272P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10353 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.2 Initial x 5.6 Final, Ball Dia: 2.36
SKU: NW-10353
MPN: 10353
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10354 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.2 Initial x 6.7 Final, Ball Dia: 2.36
SKU: NW-10354
MPN: 10354
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10355 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 6.7 Initial x 13.3 Final, Ball Dia: 2.36
SKU: NW-10355
MPN: 10355
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10356 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 8.9 Initial x 22.2 Final, Ball Dia: 2.36
SKU: NW-10356
MPN: 10356
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10357 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 8.9 Initial x 17.9 Final, Ball Dia: 3.17
SKU: NW-10357
MPN: 10357
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10358 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 13.3 Initial x 31.1 Final, Ball Dia: 3.17
SKU: NW-10358
MPN: 10358
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10359 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 17.8 Initial x 53.3 Final, Ball Dia: 3.17
SKU: NW-10359
MPN: 10359
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10360 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 8.9 Initial x 20.0 Final, Ball Dia: 3.96
SKU: NW-10360
MPN: 10360
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10361 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 17.8 Initial x 40.0 Final, Ball Dia: 3.96
SKU: NW-10361
MPN: 10361
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10362 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 26.7 Initial x 75.6 Final, Ball Dia: 3.96
SKU: NW-10362
MPN: 10362