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 33421HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.75 Final
SKU: NW-33421HP
MPN: 33421HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33421P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.1 Half x 4.75 Full
SKU: NW-33421P
MPN: 33421P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33422 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.75 Initial x 4.0 Half x 6.25 Full
SKU: NW-33422
MPN: 33422
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33422H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.75 Initial x 6.25 Final
SKU: NW-33422H
MPN: 33422H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33422HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.75 Initial x 6.25 Final
SKU: NW-33422HP
MPN: 33422HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33422P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.75 Initial x4.0 Half x 6.25 Full
SKU: NW-33422P
MPN: 33422P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33423 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.75 Half x 10.5 Full
SKU: NW-33423
MPN: 33423
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33423H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 3.0 Initial x 10.5 Final
SKU: NW-33423H
MPN: 33423H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33423HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 3.0 Initial x 10.5 Final
SKU: NW-33423HP
MPN: 33423HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33423P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.75 Half x 10.5 Full
SKU: NW-33423P
MPN: 33423P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33424 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 3.75 Initial x 9.6 Half x 15.5 Full
SKU: NW-33424
MPN: 33424
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33424H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 3.75 Initial x 15.5 Final
SKU: NW-33424H
MPN: 33424H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33424HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 3.75 Initial x 15.5 Final
SKU: NW-33424HP
MPN: 33424HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33424P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 3.75 Initial x 9.6 Half x 15.5 Full
SKU: NW-33424P
MPN: 33424P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33425 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 11.5 Half x 18.5 Full
SKU: NW-33425
MPN: 33425
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33425H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 4.5 Initial x 18.5 Final
SKU: NW-33425H
MPN: 33425H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33425HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 4.5 Initial x 18.5 Final
SKU: NW-33425HP
MPN: 33425HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33425P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 11.5 Half x 18.5 Full
SKU: NW-33425P
MPN: 33425P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33426 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 16.5 Half x 28.0 Full
SKU: NW-33426
MPN: 33426
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33426H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 5.0 Initial x 28.0 Final
SKU: NW-33426H
MPN: 33426H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33426HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 5.0 Initial x 28.0 Final
SKU: NW-33426HP
MPN: 33426HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33426P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 16.5 Half x 28.0 Full
SKU: NW-33426P
MPN: 33426P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33427H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 7.0 Initial x 50.0 Final
SKU: NW-33427H
MPN: 33427H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33427HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 7.0 Initial x 50.0 Final
SKU: NW-33427HP
MPN: 33427HP