Company History

The Berns Company was founded by George Berns in 1955. George's sons, Dan and Steve Berns now in their early 40's, grew up in the industrial surplus business. Remaining in Long Beach, both attended the University of Long Beach receiving degrees in business. Most of their business education has been attained on the job over the last 20 years at The Berns Company.

During the 1950's and 60's the business primarily bought and sold new surplus from the United States Government. In the late 60's, The Berns Company purchased a gear manufacturing company and began manufacturing Drive Train Components for the material handling, construction, forestry and mining industries. Over the last 20 years, the company has grown to six warehouses and one of the the largest inventories of material handling replacement parts and components in the world. The Berns group of companies now employs 40 individuals. The Berns Company has become a major wholesale supplier to Original Equipment Manufacturers such as Clark Material Handling, Nacco-Hyster-Yale and others.

Today, The Berns Company continues to be one of the largest material handling surplus buyers in the world. We continue to buy inventories daily. Inventory disposal management is key to helping our customers save money. Our surplus inventory is currently over 500,000 line items. The Berns Company currently manufactures in excess of 12,000 aftermarket replacement parts. This large inventory offers our customers competitive pricing, while our sales staff is friendly and has the technical expertise required to fill all your company's needs.

The Berns Company is conveniently located in Long Beach, California. Located in the Long Beach, Los Angeles harbor offers air, truck and sea freight forwarding same day to our customers around the world.

The staff at The Berns Company brings many years of experience to the customer. Dan and Steve have worked in every department and aspect of the business since they were children. They have continued the company philosophy of developing and maintaining excellent relationships with their suppliers and vendors over the years.

Dale Seymour heads up the Equipment Sales section of The Berns Company. Dale has 15 years experience buying and selling new and wholesale machinery. Dale is a graduate of The University of Southern California with a degree in business and accounting.

The Berns Company's tremendous inventory cuts across the board with its product line. Our coverage is amazing and goes from the "hard to find" through the obscure, to the most current. The Berns Company's on site rebuild facility is involved in rebuilding transmissions, differentials, steering gears, pumps, valves, power steering and tilt cylinders and steering axles. Depending on the customer needs, The Berns Company can produce off the shelf parts or components or rebuild the customers. We see requirements primarily for forklifts and towing tractors. However, it is not uncommon to see components for cranes, loaders and heavy trucks.

Service parts are the thrust of The Berns Company's business. It makes up to 80% of all sales. Along with our surplus and aftermarket replacements, The Berns Company is a warehouse distributor for 85 different original parts manufacturers.

Customers around the world use The Berns Company to source their requirements. Service is our business and we are willing to source anything our customer needs. With our large inventory and experienced sales staff, "The Berns Company is one attractive place to shop, you should get to know us!"