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 10112 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 21.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10112
MPN: 10112
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10112H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10112H
MPN: 10112H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10112HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10112HP
MPN: 10112HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10112P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 21.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10112P
MPN: 10112P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10113 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10113
MPN: 10113
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10113H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10113H
MPN: 10113H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10113HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10113HP
MPN: 10113HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10113P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10113P
MPN: 10113P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10114 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10114
MPN: 10114
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10114H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10114H
MPN: 10114H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10114HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10114HP
MPN: 10114HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10114P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10114P
MPN: 10114P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10115 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 30.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10115
MPN: 10115
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10115H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10115H
MPN: 10115H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10115HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10115HP
MPN: 10115HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10115P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 30.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10115P
MPN: 10115P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10116 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 9.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10116
MPN: 10116
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10116H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10116H
MPN: 10116H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10116HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10116HP
MPN: 10116HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10116P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 9.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10116P
MPN: 10116P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10117 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 9.0 Initial x 18.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10117
MPN: 10117
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10117H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10117H
MPN: 10117H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10117HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10117HP
MPN: 10117HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10117P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 9.0 Initial x 18.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10117P
MPN: 10117P