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 33156 Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 24.5 Initial x 44.5 Half x 64.5 Full
SKU: NW-33156
MPN: 33156
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33156P Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 24.5 Initial x 44.5 Half x 64.5 Full
SKU: NW-33156P
MPN: 33156P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33156SS Stainless Steel Metric Spring Plungers - M10 x 1.5 - With Locking Element
SKU: NW-33156SS
MPN: 33156SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33157 Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 29.5 Initial x 53.5 Half x 77.5 Full
SKU: NW-33157
MPN: 33157
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33157P Metric Spring Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 29.5 Initial x 53.5 Half x 77.5 Full
SKU: NW-33157P
MPN: 33157P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33157SS Stainless Steel Metric Spring Plungers - M12 x 1.75 - With Locking Element
SKU: NW-33157SS
MPN: 33157SS
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33200 Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33200
MPN: 33200
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33200H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33200H
MPN: 33200H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33200HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33200HP
MPN: 33200HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33200P Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33200P
MPN: 33200P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33201 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33201
MPN: 33201
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33201P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33201P
MPN: 33201P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33202 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 0.7 Initial x 1.5 Half x 2.3 Full
SKU: NW-33202
MPN: 33202
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33202P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 0.7 Initial x 1.5 Half x 2.3 Full
SKU: NW-33202P
MPN: 33202P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33203 Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33203
MPN: 33203
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33203H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33203H
MPN: 33203H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33203HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33203HP
MPN: 33203HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33203M Metric Short Spring Plungers - Light Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Zinc Plated Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33203M
MPN: 33203M
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33203MP Metric Short Spring Plungers - Light Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Zinc Plated Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33203MP
MPN: 33203MP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33203P Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33203P
MPN: 33203P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33204 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 1.3 Initial x 2.0 Half x 2.7 Full
SKU: NW-33204
MPN: 33204
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33204P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 1.3 Initial x 2.0 Half x 2.7 Full
SKU: NW-33204P
MPN: 33204P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33205 Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 1.62 Half x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33205
MPN: 33205
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33205H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 1/2
SKU: NW-33205H
MPN: 33205H