In Switzerland and abroad, the purchase, sale, trade, brokerage, supply, exchange, management, transportation, storage and distribution in any way of synthetic chemical compounds and raw materials, such as synthetic chemical compounds derived from petroleum or natural gas, as well as the exercise of all related activities and services, in particular economic, financial, technical or administrative ones. To this end, the company may participate in industrial and commercial enterprises. It may also participate in the financing, in particular by providing guarantees and securities of any kind, of other entities of the group to which the Company belongs in the interest of the said group, and establish branches or found subsidiaries in Switzerland or abroad. The company may also carry out all activities directly or indirectly related to the above-mentioned purpose.