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 33504 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.3 Initial x 2.0 Half x 2.7 Full
SKU: NW-33504
MPN: 33504
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33504P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.3 Initial x 2.0 Half x 2.7 Full
SKU: NW-33504P
MPN: 33504P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33505 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Half x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-33505
MPN: 33505
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33505P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Half x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-33505P
MPN: 33505P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33506 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Half x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-33506
MPN: 33506
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33506P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Half x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-33506P
MPN: 33506P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33508 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Half x 4.5 Full
SKU: NW-33508
MPN: 33508
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33508P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Half x 4.5 Full
SKU: NW-33508P
MPN: 33508P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33509 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 2.8 Initial x 5.0 Half x 7.2 Full
SKU: NW-33509
MPN: 33509
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33509P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 2.8 Initial x 5.0 Half x 7.2 Full
SKU: NW-33509P
MPN: 33509P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33510 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 2.7 Initial x 6.0 Half x 9.3 Full
SKU: NW-33510
MPN: 33510
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33510P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 2.7 Initial x 6.0 Half x 9.3 Full
SKU: NW-33510P
MPN: 33510P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33520 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33520
MPN: 33520
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33520H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final
SKU: NW-33520H
MPN: 33520H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33520HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final
SKU: NW-33520HP
MPN: 33520HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33520P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33520P
MPN: 33520P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33521 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33521
MPN: 33521
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33521H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final
SKU: NW-33521H
MPN: 33521H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33521HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final
SKU: NW-33521HP
MPN: 33521HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33521P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33521P
MPN: 33521P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33522 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 1.62 Half x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33522
MPN: 33522
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33522H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-33522H
MPN: 33522H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33522HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-33522HP
MPN: 33522HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33522P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 1.62 Half x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33522P
MPN: 33522P