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 34168 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 8.0 Full
SKU: NW-34168
MPN: 34168
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34170 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34170
MPN: 34170
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34171 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34171
MPN: 34171
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34172 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.0 Full
SKU: NW-34172
MPN: 34172
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34174 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-34174
MPN: 34174
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34176 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 3.0 Full
SKU: NW-34176
MPN: 34176
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34178 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-34178
MPN: 34178
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34180 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 1.25 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-34180
MPN: 34180
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34181 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking - Stainless Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-34181
MPN: 34181
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34184 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 15.5 Full
SKU: NW-34184
MPN: 34184
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34185 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 22.0 Full
SKU: NW-34185
MPN: 34185
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34186 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 6.5 Initial x 26.5 Full
SKU: NW-34186
MPN: 34186
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34187 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 6.5 Initial x 35.5 Full
SKU: NW-34187
MPN: 34187
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34188 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 11.0 Initial x 44.5 Full
SKU: NW-34188
MPN: 34188
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34189 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 22.0 Initial x 44.5 Full
SKU: NW-34189
MPN: 34189
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34191 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 9.0 Full
SKU: NW-34191
MPN: 34191
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34192 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 11.0 Full
SKU: NW-34192
MPN: 34192
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34193 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 13.0 Full
SKU: NW-34193
MPN: 34193
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34194 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 18.0 Full
SKU: NW-34194
MPN: 34194
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34195 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 5.5 Initial x 22.0 Full
SKU: NW-34195
MPN: 34195
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34196 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Metric - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 13.0 Initial x 26.5 Full
SKU: NW-34196
MPN: 34196
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34201 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose Metric - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 22.0 Full
SKU: NW-34201
MPN: 34201
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34202 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose Metric - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 6.5 Initial x 26.5 Full
SKU: NW-34202
MPN: 34202
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34203 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose Metric - Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 6.5 Initial x 35.5 Full
SKU: NW-34203
MPN: 34203