The company's purpose is to develop, produce and distribute systems for printing on web-shaped materials and decorative surfaces as well as for packaging printing. The company may participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, establish branches and subsidiaries, acquire, manage or sell properties and real estate, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may grant loans or other financing to its direct or indirect shareholders as well as their direct or indirect subsidiaries, for consideration or free of charge, and provide security of any kind for the liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or by way of guarantees of any kind.