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 33443 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 2.7 Initial x 5.0 Half x 7.3 Full
SKU: NW-33443
MPN: 33443
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33443P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 2.7 Initial x 5.0 Half x 7.3 Full
SKU: NW-33443P
MPN: 33443P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33444 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 2.9 Initial x 7.0 Half x 11.1 Full
SKU: NW-33444
MPN: 33444
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33444P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 2.9 Initial x 7.0 Half x 11.1 Full
SKU: NW-33444P
MPN: 33444P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33445 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 8.0 Half x 13.0 Full
SKU: NW-33445
MPN: 33445
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33445P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 8.0 Half x 13.0 Full
SKU: NW-33445P
MPN: 33445P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33446 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 8.0 Half x 13.0 Full
SKU: NW-33446
MPN: 33446
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33446P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 8.0 Half x 13.0 Full
SKU: NW-33446P
MPN: 33446P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33448 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 9.0 Half x 15.0 Full
SKU: NW-33448
MPN: 33448
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33448P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 9.0 Half x 15.0 Full
SKU: NW-33448P
MPN: 33448P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33449 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 5.5 Initial x 10.0 Half x 14.5 Full
SKU: NW-33449
MPN: 33449
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33449P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 5.5 Initial x 10.0 Half x 14.5 Full
SKU: NW-33449P
MPN: 33449P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33450 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 6.6 Initial x 12.0 Half x 17.4 Full
SKU: NW-33450
MPN: 33450
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33450P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 6.6 Initial x 12.0 Half x 17.4 Full
SKU: NW-33450P
MPN: 33450P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33460 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.1 Half x 4.75 Full
SKU: NW-33460
MPN: 33460
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33460H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.75 Final
SKU: NW-33460H
MPN: 33460H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33460HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.75 Final
SKU: NW-33460HP
MPN: 33460HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33460P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.1 Half x 4.75 Full
SKU: NW-33460P
MPN: 33460P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33461 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.1 Half x 4.75 Full
SKU: NW-33461
MPN: 33461
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33461H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.75 Final
SKU: NW-33461H
MPN: 33461H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33461HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.75 Final
SKU: NW-33461HP
MPN: 33461HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33461P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.1 Half x 4.75 Full
SKU: NW-33461P
MPN: 33461P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33462 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Heavy Pressures - With Lock. Element - Brown Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.75 Initial x 4.0 Half x 6.25 Full
SKU: NW-33462
MPN: 33462
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33462H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.75 Initial x 6.25 Final
SKU: NW-33462H
MPN: 33462H