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 10540 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-10540
MPN: 10540
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10542 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / Stainless Nose; End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Fina
SKU: NW-10542
MPN: 10542
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10544 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-10544
MPN: 10544
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10546 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-10546
MPN: 10546
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10548 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-10548
MPN: 10548
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10550 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.0 Final
SKU: NW-10550
MPN: 10550
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10550EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10550EX
MPN: 10550EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10551 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10551
MPN: 10551
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10551EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10551EX
MPN: 10551EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10552 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.5 Final
SKU: NW-10552
MPN: 10552
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10552EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10552EX
MPN: 10552EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10554 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 2.5 Initial x 6.0 Final
SKU: NW-10554
MPN: 10554
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10554EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10554EX
MPN: 10554EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10556 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10556
MPN: 10556
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10556EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10556EX
MPN: 10556EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10558 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 5.0 Initial x 14.0 Final
SKU: NW-10558
MPN: 10558
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10558EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10558EX
MPN: 10558EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10560 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 8.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10560
MPN: 10560
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10560EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10560EX
MPN: 10560EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10562 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final
SKU: NW-10562
MPN: 10562
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10563 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10563
MPN: 10563
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10564 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10564
MPN: 10564
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10566 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Final
SKU: NW-10566
MPN: 10566
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10568 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10568
MPN: 10568