Since 1926, the year it was founded by brothers Carl and Wilhelm Berges in Marienheide, it has been involved in the production of presses and molds for metal and plastic processing.

In the 1940s it expanded its offering with continuous mechanical propulsion techniques, following an expansion of international activities in the following years.

With the acquisition of the "System Becker" asymmetric variable pulley technology in 2003, Berges became a highly specialized company in the field of continuously variable speed pulley technology.