About Kerns Manufacturing

Entering Our Next Century of Operation

Kerns is a world-class international manufacturer of products for the Aerospace Industry. Established in the early 1950s, Kerns is a leading Tier 1 supplier of complex components and assemblies for Aero-Engine and Rocket Engine applications. We manufacture products for clients throughout the world from our main facility in Queens, New York, USA.

Kerns occupies a special process technology niche in the Aerospace industry. We are quite unique with respect to the depth and breadth of our special process manufacturing capabilities. Additionally, Kerns products are typically among the most complex, difficult to manufacture, and most valuable components in Aircraft and Rocket Engines — requiring engineering, quality, manufacturing, and management mastery of technically challenging special processes.

Our special processes are performed on some of the most unforgiving and challenging materials used in manufacturing: super alloys. These materials are extremely hard with high temperature resistant properties — unusually tough materials requiring great skill with regard to their post-special-process machining.

The manufacturing precision required in the production of Kerns product is extremely demanding. Allowable dimensional deviation from nominal is typically measured in thousandths or tenths of thousandths of an inch. Typical temperatures for our vacuum braze and heat treat operations can reach 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit.

Kerns produces complex components and assemblies for a broad range of aircraft engines. Our products include structural static as well as rotating components: Engine Front Frames, Turbine Nozzles, Air Ducts, Inducer Nozzles, Pressure Balance Seals, Oil Tanks, and Shroud Supports.

Kerns has a skilled program management and technical support team, qualified to take a program from concept through prototype, DFM, and into full production. We enjoy the challenge and opportunity of the integrated product development environment.

Our people are the backbone of our business. Our craftsmen average more than 20 years of aerospace experience. Their pride, experience, and intelligence are paramount to our success. In addition to our skilled workforce, Kerns has a network of qualified suppliers to support our need for raw material and proprietary products.