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 34128 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Non-Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 8.0 Full
SKU: NW-34128
MPN: 34128
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34130 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Non-Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34130
MPN: 34130
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34131 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Non-Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34131
MPN: 34131
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34132 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Non-Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.0 Full
SKU: NW-34132
MPN: 34132
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34134 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Non-Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-34134
MPN: 34134
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34136 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Non-Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 3.0 Full
SKU: NW-34136
MPN: 34136
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34138 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Non-Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-34138
MPN: 34138
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34140 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Non-Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 1.25 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-34140
MPN: 34140
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34141 Hand Retractable Plungers - Knurled Head Plungers - Non-Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-34141
MPN: 34141
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34142 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.5 Full
SKU: NW-34142
MPN: 34142
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34144 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-34144
MPN: 34144
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34146 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-34146
MPN: 34146
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34148 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 8.0 Full
SKU: NW-34148
MPN: 34148
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34150 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34150
MPN: 34150
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34151 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34151
MPN: 34151
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34152 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.0 Full
SKU: NW-34152
MPN: 34152
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34154 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-34154
MPN: 34154
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34156 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 3.0 Full
SKU: NW-34156
MPN: 34156
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34158 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-34158
MPN: 34158
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34160 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 1.25 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-34160
MPN: 34160
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34161 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-34161
MPN: 34161
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34162 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 3.5 Full
SKU: NW-34162
MPN: 34162
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34164 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-34164
MPN: 34164
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34166 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-34166
MPN: 34166