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 33653 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Steel, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33653
MPN: 33653
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33657 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Stainless Steel, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33657
MPN: 33657
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33658 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Steel, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 3.0 Full
SKU: NW-33658
MPN: 33658
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33659 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Stainless Steel, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 3.75 Full
SKU: NW-33659
MPN: 33659
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33660 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Stainless Steel, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33660
MPN: 33660
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33661 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Stainless Steel, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33661
MPN: 33661
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33665 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Steel, End Force: 0.125 Initial x 0.5 Full
SKU: NW-33665
MPN: 33665
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33666 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Steel, End Force: 0.25 Initial x 1.0 Full
SKU: NW-33666
MPN: 33666
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33667 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Steel, End Force: 0.25 Initial x 1.25 Full
SKU: NW-33667
MPN: 33667
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33668 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Steel, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.0 Full
SKU: NW-33668
MPN: 33668
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33669 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Steel, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33669
MPN: 33669
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33673 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Stainless Steel, End Force: 0.125 Initial x 0.5 Full
SKU: NW-33673
MPN: 33673
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33674 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Steel, End Force: 0.25 Initial x 1.0 Full
SKU: NW-33674
MPN: 33674
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33675 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Stainless Steel, End Force: 0.25 Initial x 1.25 Full
SKU: NW-33675
MPN: 33675
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33676 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Stainless Steel, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.0 Full
SKU: NW-33676
MPN: 33676
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33677 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking - Radiused Delrin Nose - Stainless Steel, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33677
MPN: 33677
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33681 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Standard Length - Locking Plungers Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33681
MPN: 33681
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33683 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Standard Length - Locking Plungers Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-33683
MPN: 33683
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33684 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Standard Length - Locking Plungers Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33684
MPN: 33684
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33689 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Standard Length - Locking Plungers Radiused Delrin Nose- Stainless Steel, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33689
MPN: 33689
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33691 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Standard Length - Locking Plungers Radiused Delrin Nose- Stainless Steel, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-33691
MPN: 33691
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33692 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Standard Length - Locking Plungers Radiused Delrin Nose- Stainless Steel, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33692
MPN: 33692
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33702 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Short - Non-Locking Plungers - Steel, End Force: 0.50 Initial x 2.0 Full
SKU: NW-33702
MPN: 33702
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33703 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Short - Non-Locking Plungers - Steel, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 2.75 Full
SKU: NW-33703
MPN: 33703