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 10717 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Final
SKU: NW-10717
MPN: 10717
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10718 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10718
MPN: 10718
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10719 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / End Force: 2.5 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10719
MPN: 10719
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10720 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, Heat Treated Steel Nose - Zinc Plated Finish / End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final
SKU: NW-10720
MPN: 10720
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10722 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final
SKU: NW-10722
MPN: 10722
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10722A Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Final
SKU: NW-10722A
MPN: 10722A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10723 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-10723
MPN: 10723
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10724 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Final
SKU: NW-10724
MPN: 10724
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10725 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-10725
MPN: 10725
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10726 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose End Force: 2.5 Initial x 7.0 Final
SKU: NW-10726
MPN: 10726
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10727 Press Thru Spring Plungers - Light Pressure, White Delrin Nose End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final
SKU: NW-10727
MPN: 10727
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11001 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/16-18 Stud Size, 3/8 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11001
MPN: 11001
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11002 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 3/8-16 Stud Size, 7/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11002
MPN: 11002
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11003 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 3/8-16 Stud Size, 1/2 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11003
MPN: 11003
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11004 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 3/8-16 Stud Size, 9/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11004
MPN: 11004
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11005 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 9/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11005
MPN: 11005
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11006 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 5/8 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11006
MPN: 11006
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11007 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 11/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11007
MPN: 11007
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11008 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 11/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11008
MPN: 11008
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11009 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 3/4 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11009
MPN: 11009
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11010 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 13/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11010
MPN: 11010
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11011 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 9/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11011
MPN: 11011
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11012 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 5/8 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11012
MPN: 11012
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11013 Clamping Kits / Aluminum Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 11/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11013
MPN: 11013