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 11157 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 11/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11157
MPN: 11157
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11158 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 11/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11158
MPN: 11158
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11159 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 3/4 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11159
MPN: 11159
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11160 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 13/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11160
MPN: 11160
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11161 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 9/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11161
MPN: 11161
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11163 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 1/2-13 Stud Size, 11/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11163
MPN: 11163
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11164 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 11/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11164
MPN: 11164
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11165 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 3/4 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11165
MPN: 11165
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11166 Deluxe Clamping Kits / All Steel Blocks and Clamps: 5/8-11 Stud Size, 13/16 Table Slot
SKU: NW-11166
MPN: 11166
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11508 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 10; Stud Size: M8
SKU: NW-11508
MPN: 11508
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11510 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 12; Stud Size: M10
SKU: NW-11510
MPN: 11510
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11512 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 14; Stud Size: M12
SKU: NW-11512
MPN: 11512
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11516 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 16; Stud Size: M12
SKU: NW-11516
MPN: 11516
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11520 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 18; Stud Size: M16
SKU: NW-11520
MPN: 11520
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11522 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 20; Stud Size: M16
SKU: NW-11522
MPN: 11522
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11532 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 14; Stud Size: M12
SKU: NW-11532
MPN: 11532
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11536 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 16; Stud Size: M12
SKU: NW-11536
MPN: 11536
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11540 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 18; Stud Size: M16
SKU: NW-11540
MPN: 11540
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11542 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 20; Stud Size: M16
SKU: NW-11542
MPN: 11542
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11560 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 12; Stud Size: M10
SKU: NW-11560
MPN: 11560
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11562 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 14; Stud Size: M12
SKU: NW-11562
MPN: 11562
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11566 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 16; Stud Size: M12
SKU: NW-11566
MPN: 11566
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11570 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 18; Stud Size: M16
SKU: NW-11570
MPN: 11570
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 11572 Metric Clamping Kits - All Blocks and Clamps; Table Slot: 20; Stud Size: M16
SKU: NW-11572
MPN: 11572