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 33041HP Hex Drive Short Extended Travel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 4
SKU: NW-33041HP
MPN: 33041HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33041P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 3.5 Initial x 19.0 Full
SKU: NW-33041P
MPN: 33041P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33042 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Steel Body- With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 33.5 Full
SKU: NW-33042
MPN: 33042
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33042H Hex Drive Short Extended Travel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 8
SKU: NW-33042H
MPN: 33042H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33042HP Hex Drive Short Extended Travel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 8
SKU: NW-33042HP
MPN: 33042HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33042P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 33.5 Full
SKU: NW-33042P
MPN: 33042P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33044H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33044H
MPN: 33044H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33044HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33044HP
MPN: 33044HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33045 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.25 Full
SKU: NW-33045
MPN: 33045
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33045H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33045H
MPN: 33045H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33045HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33045HP
MPN: 33045HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33045P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.25 Full
SKU: NW-33045P
MPN: 33045P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33046 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.25 Full
SKU: NW-33046
MPN: 33046
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33046H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33046H
MPN: 33046H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33046HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33046HP
MPN: 33046HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33046P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.25 Full
SKU: NW-33046P
MPN: 33046P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33047 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose Nose, End Force: 1.25 Initial x 4.25 Full
SKU: NW-33047
MPN: 33047
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33047H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33047H
MPN: 33047H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33047HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33047HP
MPN: 33047HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33047P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose Nose, End Force: 1.25 Initial x 4.25 Full
SKU: NW-33047P
MPN: 33047P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33048 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose Nose, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 7.0 Full
SKU: NW-33048
MPN: 33048
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33048H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33048H
MPN: 33048H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33048HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33048HP
MPN: 33048HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33048P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose Nose, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 7.0 Full
SKU: NW-33048P
MPN: 33048P