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 33008 Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin, End Force: 3.75 Initial x 9.6 Half x 15.5 Full
SKU: NW-33008
MPN: 33008
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33008H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 3.75 Initial x 15.5 Final
SKU: NW-33008H
MPN: 33008H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33008HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 3.75 Initial x 15.5 Final
SKU: NW-33008HP
MPN: 33008HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33008M Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Brown Delrin Nose
SKU: NW-33008M
MPN: 33008M
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33008MP Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Brown Delrin Nose
SKU: NW-33008MP
MPN: 33008MP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33008P Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin, End Force: 3.75 Initial x 9.6 Half x 15.5 Full
SKU: NW-33008P
MPN: 33008P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33009 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Brown Nose, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Half x 14.5 Full
SKU: NW-33009
MPN: 33009
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33009P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Brown Nose, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Half x 14.5 Full
SKU: NW-33009P
MPN: 33009P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33010 Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 11.5 Half x 18.5 Full
SKU: NW-33010
MPN: 33010
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33010H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 4.5 Initial x 18.5 Final
SKU: NW-33010H
MPN: 33010H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33010HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 4.5 Initial x 18.5 Final
SKU: NW-33010HP
MPN: 33010HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33010M Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Brown Delrin Nose
SKU: NW-33010M
MPN: 33010M
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33010MP Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Brown Delrin Nose
SKU: NW-33010MP
MPN: 33010MP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33010P Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 11.5 Half x 18.5 Full
SKU: NW-33010P
MPN: 33010P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33011 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Brown Nose, End Force: 6.6 Initial x 12.0 Half x 17.4 Full
SKU: NW-33011
MPN: 33011
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33011P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Brown Nose, End Force: 6.6 Initial x 12.0 Half x 17.4 Full
SKU: NW-33011P
MPN: 33011P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33012 Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 16.5 Half x 28.0 Full
SKU: NW-33012
MPN: 33012
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33012H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 5.0 Initial x 28.0 Final
SKU: NW-33012H
MPN: 33012H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33012HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 5.0 Initial x 28.0 Final
SKU: NW-33012HP
MPN: 33012HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33012M Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Brown Delrin Nose
SKU: NW-33012M
MPN: 33012M
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33012MP Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Brown Delrin Nose
SKU: NW-33012MP
MPN: 33012MP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33012P Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 16.5 Half x 28.0 Full
SKU: NW-33012P
MPN: 33012P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33013 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Brown Nose, End Force: 10.5 Initial x 18.0 Half x 25.5 Full
SKU: NW-33013
MPN: 33013
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33013P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Brown Nose, End Force: 10.5 Initial x 18.0 Half x 25.5 Full
SKU: NW-33013P
MPN: 33013P