From July 2020 the company is registered under RENA Technologies GmbH Austria and emanates from Hirtenberger Engineered Surfaces GmbH, formerly Happy Plating GmbH. Happy Plating was founded in 2004 by the three physical chemists Selma Hansal, Martina Halmdienst and Wolfgang Hansal as a spinoff of an Austrian research center, and acted as a bridge between (applied) research and industrial production. Happy Plating worked as an international process developer, upscaling expert and partner for industrial implementation of electrochemical and galvanic surface finishing and coating processes, based on the company’s internationally acknowledged expertise in pulse plating.