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 10481SS Smooth - Collared Plunger - All Stainless - Body Length - 4 mm
SKU: NW-10481SS
MPN: 10481SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10482D Smooth - Collared Plunger - Thermoplastic Body with Stainless Ball - Body Length - 5 mm
SKU: NW-10482D
MPN: 10482D
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10482SS Smooth - Collared Plunger - All Stainless - Body Length - 5 mm
SKU: NW-10482SS
MPN: 10482SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10483D Smooth - Collared Plunger - Thermoplastic Body with Stainless Ball - Body Length - 6 mm
SKU: NW-10483D
MPN: 10483D
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10483SS Smooth - Collared Plunger - All Stainless - Body Length - 6 mm
SKU: NW-10483SS
MPN: 10483SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10484D Smooth - Collared Plunger - Thermoplastic Body with Stainless Ball - Body Length - 8 mm
SKU: NW-10484D
MPN: 10484D
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10484SS Smooth - Collared Plunger - All Stainless - Body Length - 8 mm
SKU: NW-10484SS
MPN: 10484SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10485D Smooth - Collared Plunger - Thermoplastic Body with Stainless Ball - Body Length - 10 mm
SKU: NW-10485D
MPN: 10485D
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10485SS Smooth - Collared Plunger - All Stainless - Body Length - 10 mm
SKU: NW-10485SS
MPN: 10485SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10486D Smooth - Collared Plunger - Thermoplastic Body with Stainless Ball - Body Length - 12 mm
SKU: NW-10486D
MPN: 10486D
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10486SS Smooth - Collared Plunger - All Stainless - Body Length - 12 mm
SKU: NW-10486SS
MPN: 10486SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10502 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heated Treated Steel Nose - Black Oxide Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.0 Final
SKU: NW-10502
MPN: 10502
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10502EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10502EX
MPN: 10502EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10503 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heated Treated Steel Nose - Black Oxide Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10503
MPN: 10503
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10503EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10503EX
MPN: 10503EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10504 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heated Treated Steel Nose - Black Oxide Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.5 Final
SKU: NW-10504
MPN: 10504
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10504EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10504EX
MPN: 10504EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10506 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heated Treated Steel Nose - Black Oxide Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 2.5 Initial x 6.0 Final
SKU: NW-10506
MPN: 10506
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10506EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10506EX
MPN: 10506EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10508 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heated Treated Steel Nose - Black Oxide Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10508
MPN: 10508
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10508EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10508EX
MPN: 10508EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10510 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heated Treated Steel Nose - Black Oxide Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 5.0 Initial x 14.0 Final
SKU: NW-10510
MPN: 10510
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10510EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10510EX
MPN: 10510EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10512 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heated Treated Steel Nose - Black Oxide Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 8.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10512
MPN: 10512