The company was originally A. Bering & Bro. It advertised on May 13, 1887 itself as “Manufacturers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Doors, Sash and Blinds, Sash and Blinds' Trimmings, Sawed Shingle, Rough and Dressed Lumber, Planing Mill and Factory Near Union Depot 62 & 64 corner Main and Prairie Sts Houston Texas.”
The first Bering Manufacturing Company activity of note before moving into the lumber industry in Louisiana, this company organized in 1891 with $40,000 stock capital. On four city blocks were a two-story machinery department, a two-story carpenter building; a warehouse shed, a store room; a boiler house; an office building; a shaving house; etc., etc. More than 100 laborers and skilled mechanics worked in the concern.
Power was provided, in 1894, by a 250-horsepower steam Corliss engine and a 250-horsepower Corliss boiler.
By 1928, Bering was operating only a planing mill at Houston.