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 33786 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Steel
SKU: NW-33786
MPN: 33786
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33792 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Stainless Steel
SKU: NW-33792
MPN: 33792
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33794 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Stainless Steel
SKU: NW-33794
MPN: 33794
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33796 Hand Retractable Plungers - Pull Ring - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Stainless Steel
SKU: NW-33796
MPN: 33796
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33809 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.5 Full
SKU: NW-33809
MPN: 33809
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33810 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33810
MPN: 33810
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33811 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-33811
MPN: 33811
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33812 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 8.0 Full
SKU: NW-33812
MPN: 33812
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33813 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-33813
MPN: 33813
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33813A Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-33813A
MPN: 33813A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33814 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.0 Full
SKU: NW-33814
MPN: 33814
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33815 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33815
MPN: 33815
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33816 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 3.0 Full
SKU: NW-33816
MPN: 33816
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33817 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-33817
MPN: 33817
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33818 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 1.25 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33818
MPN: 33818
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33818A Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-33818A
MPN: 33818A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33819 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.5 Full
SKU: NW-33819
MPN: 33819
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33820 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33820
MPN: 33820
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33821 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-33821
MPN: 33821
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33822 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 8.0 Full
SKU: NW-33822
MPN: 33822
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33823 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-33823
MPN: 33823
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33823A Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-33823A
MPN: 33823A
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33824 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.0 Full
SKU: NW-33824
MPN: 33824
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33825 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33825
MPN: 33825