Rena (company)
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1993 |
| Seat | Guttenbach ; Black Forest |
| management | Peter Schneidewind (CEO), Jürgen Ningelgen (CFO) |
| Number of employees | 1,100 (2020) |
| sales | EUR 121.4 million (2018) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.rena.com |
| As of March 18, 2020 | |
The RENA Technologies GmbH (formerly RENA GmbH) is an international company in engineering the equipment for wet chemical surface treatment in the semiconductor -, medical, solar produces and glass industry. The company is located in Gütenbach , a municipality in the Schwarzwald-Baar district in Baden-Württemberg . Further branches are located in Berg near Nuremberg, Wykroty (Poland), Duluth (Georgia, USA), Shanghai (China), Singapore and Taiwan . A research and development laboratory is operated in Freiburg im Breisgau . The company name is an abbreviation for "Cleanroom Equipment Wet Chemical Automation". The semiconductor company MEI LLC has also been part of the RENA Group since December 2019.
Fields of activity
Semiconductor industry
RENA machines are part of the value chain for the production of semiconductor wafers , Integrated Circuits (ICs) or Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). For the semiconductor industry, the company produces machines for wet chemical processing with processes such as cleaning, etching and metal deposition (electroplating).
Renewable energy
The company's services in the solar industry include batch and inline platforms as well as the associated automation and required consumables (monoTEX). The processes include cleaning, texturing, etching, edge isolation and plating of monocrystalline and multicrystalline solar wafers and cells.
Since December 2017, RENA has been developing a production concept for silicon anodes for use in lithium-ion batteries together with Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) .
Medical technology
For the medical technology industry, RENA provides automated machines for surface processing and the like. a. of dental implants and optical substrates.
Glass industry
For different material compositions and applications in glass processing, RENA provides machines for one-sided and two-sided surface treatment, e.g. B. for displays. Complete substrate surfaces as well as selective areas are processed.
history
The company was founded on January 14, 1993 under the name RENA Sondermaschinen GmbH. Initially, the machines were developed for use in the semiconductor industry. The first machines for solar cell production were manufactured in 2001.
ASTEC in Berg near Nuremberg, which existed for ten years at the time, was taken over by RENA Sondermaschinen GmbH on January 1, 2006. Production and development were shifted from the semiconductor industry towards the solar industry.
In October 2007, Höllmüller Maschinenbau GmbH was acquired by RENA in order to strengthen the company's market position in the solar market. Höllmüller also produced machines for wet chemical applications in the field of electroplating , flat panel and display production. The production capacity was expanded by the new plants in Wykroty, Poland and Herrenberg.
Due to the growing service portfolio, the company changed its name from "RENA Sondermaschinen GmbH" to "RENA GmbH" in 2008.
In the same year the RENA Technology Center (R&D) was opened in Freiburg.
On March 1, 2015, a new investor, the Swiss investment company Capvis, took over the business operations of RENA from the bankruptcy. The company will continue to operate under the name RENA Technologies GmbH .
The purchase of the RENA Group by Equistone took place in March 2019. The fund advised by Equistone Partners will acquire the company from Capvis AG after four years.
In December 2019, RENA Technologies acquired the US mechanical engineering company MEI LLC. The company from Albany, Oregon produces machines for the semiconductor industry and is intended to strengthen RENA in this sector.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wet chemical production systems for semiconductor production - Rena. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Renewable Energies - Rena. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ University of Kiel | Silicon as a new storage material for the batteries of the future. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ MedTech - Rena. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Glass - Rena. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ March 8, 2006 12:21 p.m .: A caustic deal with the sun. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ RENA takes over Höllmüller. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ commercial register of RENA GmbH from Gütenbach (HRB 611393). Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Capvis acquires business operations from RENA Announcement Capvis Equity Partners AG, accessed on July 12, 2015.
- ↑ Equistone Partners Europe - Newsdateil. Retrieved March 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Equistone Partners Europe - Newsdateil. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Philipp Peters, Philipp Peters: Rena buys company from the USA. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .