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 33114 Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 11.5 Half x 18.5 Full
SKU: NW-33114
MPN: 33114
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33114H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 4.5 Initial x 18.5 Final
SKU: NW-33114H
MPN: 33114H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33114HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 4.5 Initial x 18.5 Final
SKU: NW-33114HP
MPN: 33114HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33114M Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33114M
MPN: 33114M
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33114MP Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33114MP
MPN: 33114MP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33114P Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 11.5 Half x 18.5 Full
SKU: NW-33114P
MPN: 33114P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33115 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 6.6 Initial x 12.0 Half x 17.4 Full
SKU: NW-33115
MPN: 33115
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33115P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 6.6 Initial x 12.0 Half x 17.4 Full
SKU: NW-33115P
MPN: 33115P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33116 Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 16.5 Half x 28.0 Full
SKU: NW-33116
MPN: 33116
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33116H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 5.0 Initial x 28.0 Final
SKU: NW-33116H
MPN: 33116H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33116HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 5.0 Initial x 28.0 Final
SKU: NW-33116HP
MPN: 33116HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33116M Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33116M
MPN: 33116M
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33116MP Metric Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33116MP
MPN: 33116MP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33116P Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 16.5 Half x 28.0 Full
SKU: NW-33116P
MPN: 33116P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33117 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 10.5 Initial x 18.0 Half x 25.5 Full
SKU: NW-33117
MPN: 33117
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33117P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 10.5 Initial x 18.0 Half x 25.5 Full
SKU: NW-33117P
MPN: 33117P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33118 Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 7.0 Initial x 28.5 Half x 50.0 Full
SKU: NW-33118
MPN: 33118
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33118H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 7.0 Initial x 50.0 Final
SKU: NW-33118H
MPN: 33118H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33118HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 7.0 Initial x 50.0 Final
SKU: NW-33118HP
MPN: 33118HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33118P Short Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 7.0 Initial x 28.5 Half x 50.0 Full
SKU: NW-33118P
MPN: 33118P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33119 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 6.7 Initial x 22.0 Half x 37.3 Full
SKU: NW-33119
MPN: 33119
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33119P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 6.7 Initial x 22.0 Half x 37.3 Full
SKU: NW-33119P
MPN: 33119P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33120 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 16.0 Initial x 42.0 Half x 68.0 Full
SKU: NW-33120
MPN: 33120
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33120P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 16.0 Initial x 42.0 Half x 68.0 Full
SKU: NW-33120P
MPN: 33120P