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 10015 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10015
MPN: 10015
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10015H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10015H
MPN: 10015H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10015HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10015HP
MPN: 10015HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10015P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 5.0 Initial x 10.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10015P
MPN: 10015P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10016 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 21.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10016
MPN: 10016
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10016H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10016H
MPN: 10016H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10016HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10016HP
MPN: 10016HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10016P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 21.0 Final, Ball Dia: .187
SKU: NW-10016P
MPN: 10016P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10017 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10017
MPN: 10017
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10017H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10017H
MPN: 10017H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10017HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10017HP
MPN: 10017HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10017P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 3.0 Initial x 6.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10017P
MPN: 10017P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10018 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10018
MPN: 10018
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10018H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10018H
MPN: 10018H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10018HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10018HP
MPN: 10018HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10018P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 12.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10018P
MPN: 10018P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10019 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 30.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10019
MPN: 10019
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10019H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10019H
MPN: 10019H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10019HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Gold
SKU: NW-10019HP
MPN: 10019HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10019P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 6.0 Initial x 30.0 Final, Ball Dia: .281
SKU: NW-10019P
MPN: 10019P
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10020 Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 9.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10020
MPN: 10020
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10020H Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Silver
SKU: NW-10020H
MPN: 10020H
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10020HP Hex Drive Steel Ball Plungers - Stainless Steel Ball - Color Code - Black
SKU: NW-10020HP
MPN: 10020HP
NORTHWESTERN TOOLS 10020P Ball Plungers - Steel - Stainless Ball, End Force: 4.5 Initial x 9.0 Final, Ball Dia: .375
SKU: NW-10020P
MPN: 10020P