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 33148 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - End Force: 2.0 Initial x 7.0 Full
SKU: NW-33148
MPN: 33148
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33148H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33148H
MPN: 33148H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33148HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33148HP
MPN: 33148HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33148P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - End Force: 2.0 Initial x 7.0 Full
SKU: NW-33148P
MPN: 33148P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33149 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - End Force: 2.0 Initial x 9.0 Full
SKU: NW-33149
MPN: 33149
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33149H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1
SKU: NW-33149H
MPN: 33149H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33149HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1
SKU: NW-33149HP
MPN: 33149HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33149P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - End Force: 2.0 Initial x 9.0 Full
SKU: NW-33149P
MPN: 33149P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33150 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - End Force: 3.0 Initial x 12.5 Full
SKU: NW-33150
MPN: 33150
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33150H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 2
SKU: NW-33150H
MPN: 33150H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33150HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 2
SKU: NW-33150HP
MPN: 33150HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33150P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - End Force: 3.0 Initial x 12.5 Full
SKU: NW-33150P
MPN: 33150P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33151 Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- With Lock. Element - End Force: 3.5 Initial x 19.0 Full
SKU: NW-33151
MPN: 33151
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33151H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 4
SKU: NW-33151H
MPN: 33151H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33151HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 4
SKU: NW-33151HP
MPN: 33151HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33151P Short Spring Plungers with Extended Travel - Stainless Steel Body- Without Lock. Element - End Force: 3.5 Initial x 19.0 Full
SKU: NW-33151P
MPN: 33151P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33152H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 8
SKU: NW-33152H
MPN: 33152H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33152HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 8
SKU: NW-33152HP
MPN: 33152HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33154 Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 13.5 Initial x 35.5 Half x 58.0 Full
SKU: NW-33154
MPN: 33154
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33154P Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 13.5 Initial x 35.5 Half x 58.0 Full
SKU: NW-33154P
MPN: 33154P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33154SS Stainless Steel Metric Spring Plungers - M6 x 1.0 - With Locking Element
SKU: NW-33154SS
MPN: 33154SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33155 Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 13.5 Initial x 40.0 Half x 67.0 Full
SKU: NW-33155
MPN: 33155
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33155P Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 13.5 Initial x 40.0 Half x 67.0 Full
SKU: NW-33155P
MPN: 33155P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33155SS Stainless Steel Metric Spring Plungers - M8 x 1.25 - With Locking Element
SKU: NW-33155SS
MPN: 33155SS