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 10512EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10512EX
MPN: 10512EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10514 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final
SKU: NW-10514
MPN: 10514
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10515 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10515
MPN: 10515
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10516 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10516
MPN: 10516
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10518 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Final
SKU: NW-10518
MPN: 10518
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10520 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10520
MPN: 10520
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10522 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 2.5 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10522
MPN: 10522
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10524 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final
SKU: NW-10524
MPN: 10524
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10526 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-10526
MPN: 10526
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10526EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10526EX
MPN: 10526EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10527 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heated Treated Steel Nose - Stainless Steel / Stainless Nose; End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10527
MPN: 10527
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10527EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10527EX
MPN: 10527EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10528 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-10528
MPN: 10528
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10528EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10528EX
MPN: 10528EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10530 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-10530
MPN: 10530
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10530EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10530EX
MPN: 10530EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10532 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-10532
MPN: 10532
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10532EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10532EX
MPN: 10532EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10534 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-10534
MPN: 10534
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10534EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10534EX
MPN: 10534EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10536 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-10536
MPN: 10536
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10536EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10536EX
MPN: 10536EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10538 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final
SKU: NW-10538
MPN: 10538
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10539 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10539
MPN: 10539