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 10570 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 2.5 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10570
MPN: 10570
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10572 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final
SKU: NW-10572
MPN: 10572
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10574 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.0 Final
SKU: NW-10574
MPN: 10574
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10574EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10574EX
MPN: 10574EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10575 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10575
MPN: 10575
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10575EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10575EX
MPN: 10575EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10576 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.5 Final
SKU: NW-10576
MPN: 10576
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10576EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10576EX
MPN: 10576EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10578 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 2.5 Initial x 6.0 Final
SKU: NW-10578
MPN: 10578
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10578EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10578EX
MPN: 10578EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10580 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10580
MPN: 10580
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10580EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10580EX
MPN: 10580EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10582 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 5.0 Initial x 14.0 Final
SKU: NW-10582
MPN: 10582
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10582EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10582EX
MPN: 10582EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10584 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose; End Force: 8.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10584
MPN: 10584
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10584EX Press Fit Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10584EX
MPN: 10584EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10586 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final
SKU: NW-10586
MPN: 10586
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10587 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10587
MPN: 10587
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10588 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10588
MPN: 10588
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10590 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Final
SKU: NW-10590
MPN: 10590
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10592 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10592
MPN: 10592
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10594 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 2.5 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10594
MPN: 10594
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10596 Press Fit Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose; End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final
SKU: NW-10596
MPN: 10596
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10600 Press-Thru-Ball-Plunger / Stainless Ball / Light Pressure: End Pressure (Lbs): 0.5 Start, 1.0 Full; A: .125; B: .284; C: .035; Ball Dia. D: .098
SKU: NW-10600
MPN: 10600