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Kern Company
Your technology partner

For 70 years, Kern has been helping companies get their valuable and time sensitive documents into the mail stream for delivery to residential and business mailboxes on 6 continents. What was an idea, paired with the engineering skills of founder Marc Kern in Konolfingen, Switzerland, has grown into a worldwide mailing technology leader.

While Kern is best known for delivering the fastest production inserting equipment in the world, we have expanded into complete end to end solutions that include: Card Attaching Systems for production workflow of card personalization, Print Finishing Solutions for the automated process of printed material, Production Document Printing for lightning fast inkjet printing, Automated Document Factory System, mailFactory, which is a comprehensive suite of web enabled software designed to optimize management of a complete production print and mail center, and most recently, Kern EDGE which is a flexible software provided for document workflow, document retrieval and archiving, and much more.

Today, Kern enjoys a global presence with a direct worldwide distribution through 15 subsidiaries and over 60 distribution partners. Our U.S. headquarters has been in Columbus, Ohio for over 20 years with Kern employees throughout the country at field offices and customer sites.

Every Kern system is backed by our Customer Success Guarantee to deliver 10 years of production grade output, when maintained under a Kern full service maintenance agreement. From premier high speed inserting systems to complete Automated Document Factory Systems, Kern is a global leader in production mail and document management solutions that is truly committed to helping customers succeed.

History
Kern’s rich heritage of innovation

Marc Kern, with the help and support of his wife, set up a small workshop at Hunigenstrasse in Konolfingen with the aim of starting a letter folding and inserting machine business

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Kern Worldwide
Your Worldwide Mailing Solution

Kern enjoys a worldwide presence in over 70 countries with 10 subsidiaries and over 60 distribution partners.

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Sales
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Like what you see from Kern? Contact our sales team and we can set you up with some real game changing products that will set your business miles above your competition!

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Careers
Find A Great Career with Kern

Kern is a leading company in document output management. We specialize in the sale and service of custom, high-speed mail processing equipment.

News (5/9)

Kern strategy meeting
8/May/2024

The new corporate culture at Kern also includes transparent and open internal communication. Consequently, the internal strategy meeting at the Kongress Hotel Seepark in Thun focused on team building and the development of forward-looking strategies.
New team organisation at Kern Nederland B.V.
13/May/2024

Kern Nederland will continue to operate as a 100% subsidiary with a new management team.
Kern is delivering the last new Kern 2600 inserting system to a customer in Japan, which is operating in the energy sector.
8/Mar/2024

This marks the end of a particularly significant era that began with the Kern 2000.
Three questions for...Udo Schäfer, Head of Outputmanagement, ITERGO Informationstechnologie GmbH
9/Feb/2024

Interview series in which we ask our employees, customers and partners about Kern solutions and products. They are each asked three questions to highlight their view of current topics. We continue with three questions about the Kern 3200 for Udo Schäfer, Head of Outputmanagement, ITERGO Informationstechnologie GmbH
Three questions for...Markus Burmeister, Head of Printing and Inserting Centre, Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (German Pension Insurance Association) in Berlin
9/Feb/2024

Interview series in which we ask our employees, customers and partners about Kern solutions and products. They are each asked three questions to highlight their view of current topics. We continue with three questions about the Kern 3200 for Markus Burmeister, Head of Printing and Inserting Centre, Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (German Pension Insurance Association) in Berlin.
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