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 34246 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking Radiused Delrin Nose - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 8.0 Full
SKU: NW-34246
MPN: 34246
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34247 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking Radiused Delrin Nose - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34247
MPN: 34247
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34248 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Locking Radiused Delrin Nose - Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34248
MPN: 34248
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34250 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.0 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-34250
MPN: 34250
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34251 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-34251
MPN: 34251
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34252 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 8.0 Full
SKU: NW-34252
MPN: 34252
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34253 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34253
MPN: 34253
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34254 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel - Heavy Pressure, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Full
SKU: NW-34254
MPN: 34254
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34258 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 2.5 Full
SKU: NW-34258
MPN: 34258
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34259 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 3.0 Full
SKU: NW-34259
MPN: 34259
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34260 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 0.75 Initial x 4.0 Full
SKU: NW-34260
MPN: 34260
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34261 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 1.25 Initial x 5.0 Full
SKU: NW-34261
MPN: 34261
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 34262 Hand Retractable Plungers - Threaded Adapter Non Locking Radiused Delrin Nose- Steel - Light Pressure, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Full
SKU: NW-34262
MPN: 34262
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 35001 Step Block and Clamp Sets - Aluminum Blocks and Clamps; Bolt Size: 5/16 or 3/8
SKU: NW-35001
MPN: 35001
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 35002 Step Block and Clamp Sets - Aluminum Blocks and Clamps; Bolt Size: 1/2
SKU: NW-35002
MPN: 35002
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 35003 Step Block and Clamp Sets - Aluminum Blocks and Clamps; Bolt Size: 5/8
SKU: NW-35003
MPN: 35003
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 35004 Step Block and Clamp Sets - Aluminum Blocks and Clamps; Bolt Size: 1/2
SKU: NW-35004
MPN: 35004
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 35005 Step Block and Clamp Sets - Aluminum Blocks and Clamps; Bolt Size: 5/8
SKU: NW-35005
MPN: 35005
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 35006 Step Block and Clamp Sets - Aluminum Blocks and Clamps; Bolt Size: 3/4
SKU: NW-35006
MPN: 35006
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 35101 Step Block and Clamp Sets - All Steel Blocks and Clamps; Bolt Size: 5/16 or 3/8
SKU: NW-35101
MPN: 35101
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 35102 Step Block and Clamp Sets - All Steel Blocks and Clamps; Bolt Size: 1/2
SKU: NW-35102
MPN: 35102
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 35103 Step Block and Clamp Sets - All Steel Blocks and Clamps; Bolt Size: 5/8
SKU: NW-35103
MPN: 35103
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 35104 Step Block and Clamp Sets - All Steel Blocks and Clamps; Bolt Size: 1/2
SKU: NW-35104
MPN: 35104
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 35105 Step Block and Clamp Sets - All Steel Blocks and Clamps; Bolt Size: 5/8
SKU: NW-35105
MPN: 35105