Northwestern Tools
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 10070 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Stainless Ball, End Force: 40.0 Initial x 80.0 Final, Ball Dia: 9.52
SKU: NW-10070
MPN: 10070
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10071 Metric Ball Plungers - Steel Metric Ball Plungers - Stainless Ball, End Force: 31.1 Initial x 222.4 Final, Ball Dia: 9.52
SKU: NW-10071
MPN: 10071
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10100 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.25 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10100
MPN: 10100
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10100P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.25 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10100P
MPN: 10100P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10101 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10101
MPN: 10101
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10101H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10101H
MPN: 10101H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10101HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10101HP
MPN: 10101HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10101P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10101P
MPN: 10101P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10102 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10102
MPN: 10102
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10102H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10102H
MPN: 10102H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10102HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10102HP
MPN: 10102HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10102P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10102P
MPN: 10102P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10103 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10103
MPN: 10103
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10103H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10103H
MPN: 10103H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10103HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10103HP
MPN: 10103HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10103P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10103P
MPN: 10103P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10104 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10104
MPN: 10104
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10104H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10104H
MPN: 10104H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10104HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10104HP
MPN: 10104HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10104P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10104P
MPN: 10104P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10105 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 7.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10105
MPN: 10105
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10105H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10105H
MPN: 10105H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10105HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10105HP
MPN: 10105HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10105P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 7.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10105P
MPN: 10105P