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 10118 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 7.0 Initial x 50.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10118
MPN: 10118
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10118H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10118H
MPN: 10118H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10118HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10118HP
MPN: 10118HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10118P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 7.0 Initial x 50.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10118P
MPN: 10118P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10150 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.12 Initial x 0.5 Final, Ball Dia: .062
SKU: NW-10150
MPN: 10150
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10150P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.12 Initial x 0.5 Final, Ball Dia: .062
SKU: NW-10150P
MPN: 10150P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10151 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.25 Initial x 0.75 Final, Ball Dia: .062
SKU: NW-10151
MPN: 10151
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10151P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.25 Initial x 0.75 Final, Ball Dia: .062
SKU: NW-10151P
MPN: 10151P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10152 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final, Ball Dia: .078
SKU: NW-10152
MPN: 10152
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10152P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final, Ball Dia: .078
SKU: NW-10152P
MPN: 10152P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10153 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.25 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10153
MPN: 10153
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10153P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.25 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10153P
MPN: 10153P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10154 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.25 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10154
MPN: 10154
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10154P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.25 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10154P
MPN: 10154P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10155 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10155
MPN: 10155
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10155H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10155H
MPN: 10155H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10155HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Plain
SKU: NW-10155HP
MPN: 10155HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10155P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10155P
MPN: 10155P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10156 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10156
MPN: 10156
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10156H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10156H
MPN: 10156H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10156HP Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10156HP
MPN: 10156HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10156P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10156P
MPN: 10156P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10157 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10157
MPN: 10157
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10157H Hex Drive Stainless Steel Ball Plungers - Delrin Ball - Color Code - Yellow
SKU: NW-10157H
MPN: 10157H