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 10432A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10432A
MPN: 10432A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10433 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.5 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10433
MPN: 10433
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10434 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final
SKU: NW-10434
MPN: 10434
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10440 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10440
MPN: 10440
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10440A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Medium Pressure 0.125 Body Dia. X End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-10440A
MPN: 10440A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10441 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10441
MPN: 10441
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10442 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 3.0 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10442
MPN: 10442
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10442A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10442A
MPN: 10442A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10443 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 5.0 Initial x 14.0 Final
SKU: NW-10443
MPN: 10443
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10444 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Medium Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 8.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10444
MPN: 10444
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10445 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10445
MPN: 10445
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10445A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.125 Body Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10445A
MPN: 10445A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10446 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10446
MPN: 10446
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10447 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 6.0 Initial x 13.0 Final
SKU: NW-10447
MPN: 10447
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10447A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 8.0 Initial x 16.0 Final
SKU: NW-10447A
MPN: 10447A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10448 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 10.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10448
MPN: 10448
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10449 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Heavy Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 12.0 Initial x 23.0 Final
SKU: NW-10449
MPN: 10449
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10450 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.093 Ball Dia. X End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final
SKU: NW-10450
MPN: 10450
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10450A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Stainless Ball, Light Pressure 0.125 Ball Dia. x End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.0 Final
SKU: NW-10450A
MPN: 10450A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10451 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.156 Ball Dia. x End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10451
MPN: 10451
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10452 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.187 Ball Dia. X End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-10452
MPN: 10452
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10452A Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.250 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10452A
MPN: 10452A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10453 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.312 Ball Dia. X End Force: 2.5 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10453
MPN: 10453
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10454 Press Fit Ball Plunger - Delrin Ball, Light Pressure 0.437 Ball Dia. X End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final
SKU: NW-10454
MPN: 10454