Wholesale trade, including import and export, of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. In relation to this object, the company may, in an instrumental and non-prevailing manner, carry out any commercial, industrial, financial, securities and real estate transactions, grant guarantees and other securities, also real ones, in favor of third parties and do, without any restriction, everything necessary or useful to favor the achievement of the same object, as well as participate in consortia and temporary associations of companies. The company may assume interests and participations in other companies or enterprises, as well as open branches in Switzerland and abroad, having an analogous or related object or connected to its own.