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 33546 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-33546
MPN: 33546
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33546P 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-33546P
MPN: 33546P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33548 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Half x 4.5 Full
SKU: NW-33548
MPN: 33548
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33548P 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-33548P
MPN: 33548P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33549 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 2.8 Initial x 5.0 Half x 7.2 Full
SKU: NW-33549
MPN: 33549
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33549P 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-33549P
MPN: 33549P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33550 Stainless Steel Plungers - Standard Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 2.7 Initial x 6.0 Half x 9.3 Full
SKU: NW-33550
MPN: 33550
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33550P 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-33550P
MPN: 33550P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33560 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33560
MPN: 33560
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33560H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final
SKU: NW-33560H
MPN: 33560H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33560HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final
SKU: NW-33560HP
MPN: 33560HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33560P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33560P
MPN: 33560P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33561 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33561
MPN: 33561
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33561H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final
SKU: NW-33561H
MPN: 33561H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33561HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final
SKU: NW-33561HP
MPN: 33561HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33561P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Half x 1.5 Full
SKU: NW-33561P
MPN: 33561P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33562 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 1.62 Half x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33562
MPN: 33562
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33562H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-33562H
MPN: 33562H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33562HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Final
SKU: NW-33562HP
MPN: 33562HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33562P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 1.62 Half x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33562P
MPN: 33562P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33563 Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - With Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.25 Half x 3.5 Full
SKU: NW-33563
MPN: 33563
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33563H Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-33563H
MPN: 33563H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33563HP Hex Drive "Short" Stainless Steel Spring Plungers - End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.5 Final
SKU: NW-33563HP
MPN: 33563HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33563P Stainless Steel Plungers - Short Lengths - Light Pressures - Without Lock. Element - White Delrin Nose, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.25 Half x 3.5 Full
SKU: NW-33563P
MPN: 33563P