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 33057P Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 29.5 Initial x 53.5 Half x 77.5 Full
SKU: NW-33057P
MPN: 33057P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33057SS Stainless Steel Metric Spring Plungers - Brown Delrin Nose - M12 x 1.75 - With Locking Element
SKU: NW-33057SS
MPN: 33057SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33100 Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.1 Half x 4.75 Full
SKU: NW-33100
MPN: 33100
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33100H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.75 Final
SKU: NW-33100H
MPN: 33100H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33100HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.75 Final
SKU: NW-33100HP
MPN: 33100HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33100P Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.1 Half x 4.75 Full
SKU: NW-33100P
MPN: 33100P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33101 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Half x 4.5 Full
SKU: NW-33101
MPN: 33101
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33101P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Half x 4.5 Full
SKU: NW-33101P
MPN: 33101P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33102 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 1.3 Half x 1.6 Full
SKU: NW-33102
MPN: 33102
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33102P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 1.3 Half x 1.6 Full
SKU: NW-33102P
MPN: 33102P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33103 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 2.7 Initial x 5.0 Half x 7.3 Full
SKU: NW-33103
MPN: 33103
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33103P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 2.7 Initial x 5.0 Half x 7.3 Full
SKU: NW-33103P
MPN: 33103P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33104 Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.1 Half x 4.75 Full
SKU: NW-33104
MPN: 33104
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33104H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.75 Final
SKU: NW-33104H
MPN: 33104H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33104HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.75 Final
SKU: NW-33104HP
MPN: 33104HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33104M Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33104M
MPN: 33104M
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33104MP Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33104MP
MPN: 33104MP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33104P Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.1 Half x 4.75 Full
SKU: NW-33104P
MPN: 33104P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33105 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 2.9 Initial x 7.0 Half x 11.1 Full
SKU: NW-33105
MPN: 33105
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33105P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 2.9 Initial x 7.0 Half x 11.1 Full
SKU: NW-33105P
MPN: 33105P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33106 Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 1.75 Initial x 4.0 Half x 6.25 Full
SKU: NW-33106
MPN: 33106
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33106H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.75 Initial x 4.75 Final
SKU: NW-33106H
MPN: 33106H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33106HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.75 Initial x 4.75 Final
SKU: NW-33106HP
MPN: 33106HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33106M Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33106M
MPN: 33106M