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 33212 Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.25 Half x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33212
MPN: 33212
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33212H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 2
SKU: NW-33212H
MPN: 33212H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33212HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 2
SKU: NW-33212HP
MPN: 33212HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33212M Metric Short Spring Plungers - Light Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Zinc Plated Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33212M
MPN: 33212M
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33212MP Metric Short Spring Plungers - Light Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Zinc Plated Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33212MP
MPN: 33212MP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33212P Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.25 Half x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33212P
MPN: 33212P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33213 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 2.7 Initial x 6.0 Half x 9.3 Full
SKU: NW-33213
MPN: 33213
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33213P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 2.7 Initial x 6.0 Half x 9.3 Full
SKU: NW-33213P
MPN: 33213P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33214 Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 1.75 Initial x 3.62 Half x 5.5 Full
SKU: NW-33214
MPN: 33214
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33214H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 4
SKU: NW-33214H
MPN: 33214H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33214HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 4
SKU: NW-33214HP
MPN: 33214HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33214M Metric Short Spring Plungers - Light Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Zinc Plated Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33214M
MPN: 33214M
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33214MP Metric Short Spring Plungers - Light Spring Pressures - Heat Treated Zinc Plated Steel Nose
SKU: NW-33214MP
MPN: 33214MP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33214P Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 1.75 Initial x 3.62 Half x 5.5 Full
SKU: NW-33214P
MPN: 33214P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33215 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 3.5 Initial x 7.0 Half x 10.5 Full
SKU: NW-33215
MPN: 33215
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33215P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 3.5 Initial x 7.0 Half x 10.5 Full
SKU: NW-33215P
MPN: 33215P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33216 Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.25 Half x 8.5 Full
SKU: NW-33216
MPN: 33216
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33216H Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 8
SKU: NW-33216H
MPN: 33216H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33216HP Hex Drive "Short" Steel Spring Plungers - Net lbs Per 100 - 8
SKU: NW-33216HP
MPN: 33216HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33216P Short Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Heat Treated Steel Nose, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.25 Half x 8.5 Full
SKU: NW-33216P
MPN: 33216P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33217 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Half x 16.0 Full
SKU: NW-33217
MPN: 33217
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33217P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 10.0 Half x 16.0 Full
SKU: NW-33217P
MPN: 33217P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33218 Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - With Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 17.5 Half x 31.1 Full
SKU: NW-33218
MPN: 33218
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33218P Standard Length Spring Plungers - Light Pressures - Without Lock Element - Heat Treated Black Oxide Steel Nose, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 17.5 Half x 31.1 Full
SKU: NW-33218P
MPN: 33218P