Research and development of chemical and biochemical products in the fields of biotechnology, environment, renewable energy, health, food production, agri-food, water management, industrial effluents, agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture, oil drilling, metal extraction, paper industry, disinfection and cleaning; development of application, production and marketing processes for the aforementioned technologies in a broad sense; acquisition of complementary or competing technologies, assignment of exploitation licenses or patents; the company may carry out any financial or commercial operation related to its purpose or likely to promote it; it may also create branches in Switzerland and abroad, take participations, found or finance companies having a direct or indirect relationship with its purpose.