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 10703EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10703EX
MPN: 10703EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10704 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heat Treated Nose - Black Oxide Finish / End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10704
MPN: 10704
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10704EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10704EX
MPN: 10704EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10705 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heat Treated Nose - Black Oxide Finish / End Force: 5.0 Initial x 14.0 Final
SKU: NW-10705
MPN: 10705
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10705EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10705EX
MPN: 10705EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10706 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Heat Treated Nose - Black Oxide Finish / End Force: 8.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10706
MPN: 10706
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10706EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10706EX
MPN: 10706EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10708 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.0 Final
SKU: NW-10708
MPN: 10708
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10708A Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10708A
MPN: 10708A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10708AEX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10708AEX
MPN: 10708AEX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10708EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10708EX
MPN: 10708EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10709 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.5 Final
SKU: NW-10709
MPN: 10709
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10709EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10709EX
MPN: 10709EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10710 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose End Force: 2.5 Initial x 6.0 Final
SKU: NW-10710
MPN: 10710
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10710EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10710EX
MPN: 10710EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10711 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Final
SKU: NW-10711
MPN: 10711
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10711EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10711EX
MPN: 10711EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10712 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose End Force: 5.0 Initial x 14.0 Final
SKU: NW-10712
MPN: 10712
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10712EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10712EX
MPN: 10712EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10713 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressure, Brown Delrin Nose End Force: 8.0 Initial x 18.0 Final
SKU: NW-10713
MPN: 10713
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10713EX Press Thru™ Spring Plungers with Extended Travel
SKU: NW-10713EX
MPN: 10713EX
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10715 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final
SKU: NW-10715
MPN: 10715
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10715A Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10715A
MPN: 10715A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10716 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10716
MPN: 10716