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 33140HP Hex Drive Short Extended Travel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 2
SKU: NW-33140HP
MPN: 33140HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33140P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 12.5 Full
SKU: NW-33140P
MPN: 33140P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33141 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Steel Body- With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 3.5 Initial x 19.0 Full
SKU: NW-33141
MPN: 33141
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33141H Hex Drive Short Extended Travel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 4
SKU: NW-33141H
MPN: 33141H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33141HP Hex Drive Short Extended Travel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 4
SKU: NW-33141HP
MPN: 33141HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33141P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 3.5 Initial x 19.0 Full
SKU: NW-33141P
MPN: 33141P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33142 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Steel Body- With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 33.5 Full
SKU: NW-33142
MPN: 33142
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33142H Hex Drive Short Extended Travel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 8
SKU: NW-33142H
MPN: 33142H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33142HP Hex Drive Short Extended Travel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 8
SKU: NW-33142HP
MPN: 33142HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33142P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 33.5 Full
SKU: NW-33142P
MPN: 33142P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33144H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33144H
MPN: 33144H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33144HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33144HP
MPN: 33144HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33145 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.25 Full
SKU: NW-33145
MPN: 33145
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33145H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33145H
MPN: 33145H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33145HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33145HP
MPN: 33145HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33145P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.25 Full
SKU: NW-33145P
MPN: 33145P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33146 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.25 Full
SKU: NW-33146
MPN: 33146
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33146H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33146H
MPN: 33146H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33146HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33146HP
MPN: 33146HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33146P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.25 Full
SKU: NW-33146P
MPN: 33146P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33147 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - End Force: 1.25 Initial x 3.25 Full
SKU: NW-33147
MPN: 33147
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33147H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33147H
MPN: 33147H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33147HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33147HP
MPN: 33147HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33147P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - End Force: 1.25 Initial x 4.25 Full
SKU: NW-33147P
MPN: 33147P