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 33523 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.25 Half x 3.5 Full
SKU: NW-33523
MPN: 33523
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33523H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-33523H
MPN: 33523H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33523HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-33523HP
MPN: 33523HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33523P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.25 Half x 3.5 Full
SKU: NW-33523P
MPN: 33523P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33524 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 2.75 Half x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-33524
MPN: 33524
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33524H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.0 Final
SKU: NW-33524H
MPN: 33524H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33524HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 4.0 Final
SKU: NW-33524HP
MPN: 33524HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33524P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 2.75 Half x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-33524P
MPN: 33524P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33525 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.25 Half x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33525
MPN: 33525
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33525H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-33525H
MPN: 33525H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33525HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.5 Initial x 5.0 Final
SKU: NW-33525HP
MPN: 33525HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33525P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.25 Half x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33525P
MPN: 33525P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33526 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.75 Initial x 3.62 Half x 5.5 Full
SKU: NW-33526
MPN: 33526
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33526H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.75 Initial x 5.5 Final
SKU: NW-33526H
MPN: 33526H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33526HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.75 Initial x 5.5 Final
SKU: NW-33526HP
MPN: 33526HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33526P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - Stainless Nose, End Force: 1.75 Initial x 3.62 Half x 5.5 Full
SKU: NW-33526P
MPN: 33526P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33527H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 2.0 Initial x 8.5 Final
SKU: NW-33527H
MPN: 33527H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33527HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 2.0 Initial x 8.5 Final
SKU: NW-33527HP
MPN: 33527HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33543 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.7 Initial x 1.5 Half x 2.3 Full
SKU: NW-33543
MPN: 33543
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33543P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.7 Initial x 1.5 Half x 2.3 Full
SKU: NW-33543P
MPN: 33543P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33544 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.3 Initial x 2.0 Half x 2.7 Full
SKU: NW-33544
MPN: 33544
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33544P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.3 Initial x 2.0 Half x 2.7 Full
SKU: NW-33544P
MPN: 33544P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33545 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Half x 4.5 Full
SKU: NW-33545
MPN: 33545
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33545P Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Half x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-33545P
MPN: 33545P