The company's purpose is the production, processing, and marketing of metal products and others intended for the construction sector. It can also import and export the same products. The company can create subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and take participations in other companies, in Switzerland and abroad. It can acquire, hold, and dispose of real estate and intellectual property rights. It can also carry out any commercial, financial, or other activity, directly or indirectly related to its corporate purpose. The company can provide direct or indirect financing, whether through loans and/or other financing, including through cash pooling agreements, to third parties or to companies in which it holds direct or indirect participations, as well as to direct or indirect shareholders or to companies in which these shareholders hold direct or indirect participations. The Company can provide securities of any kind for its own commitments or those of the aforementioned persons, in particular by means of pledges, assignments, fiduciary transfers, guarantees of any kind or by means of compensatory obligations, on a paid or unpaid basis, even if these financings, securities or guarantees are in the exclusive interest of third parties or companies in which it has a direct or indirect interest, or of direct or indirect shareholders or of companies in which these third parties have a direct or indirect interest.