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 10009 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 7.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10009
MPN: 10009
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10009H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10009H
MPN: 10009H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10009HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10009HP
MPN: 10009HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10009P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 7.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10009P
MPN: 10009P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10010 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10010
MPN: 10010
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10010H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10010H
MPN: 10010H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10010HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10010HP
MPN: 10010HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10010P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .125
SKU: NW-10010P
MPN: 10010P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10011 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.5 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10011
MPN: 10011
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10011H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10011H
MPN: 10011H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10011HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10011HP
MPN: 10011HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10011P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 2.0 Initial x 4.5 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10011P
MPN: 10011P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10012 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10012
MPN: 10012
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10012H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10012H
MPN: 10012H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10012HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10012HP
MPN: 10012HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10012P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 4.0 Initial x 9.0 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10012P
MPN: 10012P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10013 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 17.0 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10013
MPN: 10013
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10013H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10013H
MPN: 10013H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10013HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10013HP
MPN: 10013HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10013P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 17.0 Final, Ball Dia: .156
SKU: NW-10013P
MPN: 10013P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10014 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10014
MPN: 10014
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10014H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10014H
MPN: 10014H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10014HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10014HP
MPN: 10014HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10014P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 2.5 Initial x 5.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10014P
MPN: 10014P