The brothers Robert and Otto Becker found the "Maschinenfabrik Gebr. Becker" in Barmen (today Wuppertal).

Otto Becker Jr., son of the co-founder Otto Becker, joins the company.

In 1919, Otto Becker Jr. decided to specialise in manufacturing compressed air equipment. He had realized that pneumatics was becoming a key technology in mechanical engineering. Compressed air is used in many industrial areas, whether blowers for blast furnaces, compressed air-driven conveyor belts or tools.

Together with the Berlin company Askania, Gebr. Becker develops special rotary compressors for driving onboard instruments.

The rapidly growing company needed a larger and more modern production hall, and so in 1928, the new building in Gennebrecker Strasse began, which was then moved into in 1929.

In 1932, Gebr. Becker was granted a patent for its rotary vane pump that combined vacuum and compressed air.

A new start after war and destruction: diversified products, individual solutions, more exports.

Production has been running at full speed again since the early 1950s.

In 1953, Gebr. Becker introduces another innovation, the dry-running rotary vane compressor, which quickly establishes itself in the printing industry due to its ease of maintenance and robustness.

Hansjürgen Becker continues to diversify the products for applications and opens up new international markets.

In 1962, the company succeeded in entering new fields of application and sales markets with another important invention.

In 1967, Gebr. Becker already has representatives in Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and South Africa.

A new, practice-oriented apprenticeship workshop is set up in the Gennebreck in 1970.

In September 1970, the company builds a functional new production building on the industrial park in Wuppertal-Nächstebreck.

The "family foundation" of the international Becker Group begins in 1975 with the first subsidiary, Becker Pumps Corp. (BPC) in Akron, Ohio, USA.

In 1978, Gebr. Becker ventures to implement a new operating principle and builds the first high-speed centrifugal compressors that can deliver even larger quantities of air.

The company is one of the leading manufacturers in the field of vacuum and compressed air.

Martin Becker joins the management of the group of companies as a representative of the 4th generation of the founding family. After his retirement as Managing Director, he remained a formative and responsible member of the Advisory Board, of which he had been a member since 2014, until his much too early death in 2019.

Compact and variable air supply for printing presses. The individual air consumers in the printing press are supplied centrally with blast air or vacuum.

With VARIAIR Direct Screw (VADS) Becker develops a non-contacting product that can be used as a vacuum pump or as a compressor for large volume flows.

The location of Apolda has a good potential of skilled workers and a favourable infrastructure.

The development of these innovative side channel blowers goes back to the increased demand for decentralised solutions.

To accommodate the growing importance of the Chinese market, the first foreign production site is established in Qingpu near Shanghai.

After Martin Becker, his sister Dr. Dorothee Becker joins the management of the group of companies and becomes the first woman to head the company.

Gebr. Becker is awarded the Wuppertal Business Prize 2016 as Company of the Year.

New work - With the restoration of the historic former production site and a new extension, an innovative customer and training centre opens in 2019.

By expanding its product portfolio, Gebr. Becker offers its customers a wider choice of suitable operating principles.