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 33942 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Steel
SKU: NW-33942
MPN: 33942
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33944 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Steel
SKU: NW-33944
MPN: 33944
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33946 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Steel
SKU: NW-33946
MPN: 33946
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33948 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Steel
SKU: NW-33948
MPN: 33948
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33952 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Stainless Steel
SKU: NW-33952
MPN: 33952
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33954 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Stainless Steel
SKU: NW-33954
MPN: 33954
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33956 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Stainless Steel
SKU: NW-33956
MPN: 33956
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33958 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Short - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Stainless Steel
SKU: NW-33958
MPN: 33958
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33962 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Steel, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33962
MPN: 33962
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33963 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Steel, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 3.0 Full
SKU: NW-33963
MPN: 33963
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33964 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Steel, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 3.75 Full
SKU: NW-33964
MPN: 33964
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33966 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Steel, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33966
MPN: 33966
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33968 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Steel, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33968
MPN: 33968
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33972 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach- Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Stainless Steel, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-33972
MPN: 33972
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33974 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Stainless Steel, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 3.75 Full
SKU: NW-33974
MPN: 33974
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33976 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Stainless Steel, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33976
MPN: 33976
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33978 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Stainless Steel, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-33978
MPN: 33978
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33982 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Steel
SKU: NW-33982
MPN: 33982
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33984 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Steel
SKU: NW-33984
MPN: 33984
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33986 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Steel
SKU: NW-33986
MPN: 33986
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33988 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Steel
SKU: NW-33988
MPN: 33988
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33992 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Stainless Steel
SKU: NW-33992
MPN: 33992
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33994 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Stainless Steel
SKU: NW-33994
MPN: 33994
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 33996 Hand Retractable Plungers - Long Reach - Standard Length - Locking Plungers - Phenolic Nose - Stainless Steel
SKU: NW-33996
MPN: 33996