Northwestern Tools
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 10001 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.12 Initial x 0.5 Final, Ball Dia: .062
SKU: NW-10001
MPN: 10001
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10001P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.12 Initial x 0.5 Final, Ball Dia: .062
SKU: NW-10001P
MPN: 10001P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10002 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.25 Initial x 0.75 Final, Ball Dia: .062
SKU: NW-10002
MPN: 10002
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10002P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.25 Initial x 0.75 Final, Ball Dia: .062
SKU: NW-10002P
MPN: 10002P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10003 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final, Ball Dia: .078
SKU: NW-10003
MPN: 10003
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10003P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.0 Final, Ball Dia: .078
SKU: NW-10003P
MPN: 10003P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10004 Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.25 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10004
MPN: 10004
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10004P Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball Plungers, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.25 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10004P
MPN: 10004P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10005 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10005
MPN: 10005
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10005H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10005H
MPN: 10005H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10005HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10005HP
MPN: 10005HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10005P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 0.5 Initial x 1.5 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10005P
MPN: 10005P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10006 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10006
MPN: 10006
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10006H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10006H
MPN: 10006H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10006HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10006HP
MPN: 10006HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10006P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 1.5 Initial x 3.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10006P
MPN: 10006P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10007 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10007
MPN: 10007
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10007H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10007H
MPN: 10007H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10007HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10007HP
MPN: 10007HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10007P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .093
SKU: NW-10007P
MPN: 10007P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10008 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10008
MPN: 10008
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10008H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10008H
MPN: 10008H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10008HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10008HP
MPN: 10008HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10008P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10008P
MPN: 10008P