The company's purpose is to purchase, sell, import and export, as well as market any product, and in particular mechatronic, electronic, mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic components and systems used in particular in the automation sector, as well as pneumatics, including the related industrial production processes, including their transformation and construction and technical design of electronics, pneumatics and mechanics. The company may also operate in all areas of the process industry, machine and electrical equipment manufacturers, public and civil infrastructure, energy in all its forms and related application sectors, public and private lighting, earthmoving and lifting machines, elevator technology, pharmaceuticals, data transmission and management and computer science, public and private transport, providing consulting and commercial brokerage services in these specialized sectors. The company may directly or indirectly acquire interests and participations in other companies or industrial, commercial, financial and service companies in Switzerland or abroad, in the sector related to the company's purpose or in other sectors, and open branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad. The company may also acquire, enhance, encumber, manage, administer and sell real estate in Switzerland and abroad, as well as participate in real estate companies and enterprises with headquarters and/or activities in Switzerland and abroad, in compliance with the applicable regulations, with particular reference to the Federal Law on the Acquisition of Land by Foreigners (LAFE). The company may also acquire and sell, distribute, manage, receive and grant the use of technologies, know-how, patents, trademarks, licenses and intellectual property rights in these sectors. The company may also carry out activities of granting loans, guarantees, including mortgages, sureties and guarantees, also in favor of third parties, excluding, however, the exercise of banking and insurance activities. Finally, the company may carry out all commercial, industrial and financial operations or of any other kind deemed necessary or useful, functionally connected with the company's purpose or aimed at achieving it.