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 11104 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 3/8-16 Stud Size, 9/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11104
MPN: 11104
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11105 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 9/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11105
MPN: 11105
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11106 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 5/8 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11106
MPN: 11106
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11107 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 11/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11107
MPN: 11107
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11108 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 11/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11108
MPN: 11108
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11109 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 3/4 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11109
MPN: 11109
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11110 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 13/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11110
MPN: 11110
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11111 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 9/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11111
MPN: 11111
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11112 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 5/8 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11112
MPN: 11112
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11113 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 11/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11113
MPN: 11113
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11114 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 11/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11114
MPN: 11114
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11115 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 3/4 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11115
MPN: 11115
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11116 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 13/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11116
MPN: 11116
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11117 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 3/4-10 Stud Size, 13/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11117
MPN: 11117
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11118 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 3/4-10 Stud Size, 7/8 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11118
MPN: 11118
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11119 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 3/4-10 Stud Size, 1" Table Slot
SKU: NW-11119
MPN: 11119
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11120 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 3/4-10 Stud Size, 1-1/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11120
MPN: 11120
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11121 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 7/8-9 Stud Size, 1" Table Slot
SKU: NW-11121
MPN: 11121
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11122 Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1"-8 Stud Size, 1-1/6 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11122
MPN: 11122
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11152 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 3/8-16 Stud Size, 7/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11152
MPN: 11152
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11153 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 3/8-16 Stud Size, 1/2 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11153
MPN: 11153
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11154 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 3/8-16 Stud Size, 9/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11154
MPN: 11154
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11155 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 9/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11155
MPN: 11155
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11156 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 5/8 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11156
MPN: 11156