The company's purpose is the trade, marketing and manufacture of instruments, equipment, products (including anesthetic products) and various materials, particularly in the dental and medical fields; the manufacture and trade of dental, medical and mechanical instruments as well as all articles that it can produce or sell; the provision of services as agents of third parties, especially for all companies of the Maillefer Instruments group, particularly technical and business management consulting, business organization and the handling of research and development mandates, especially in the field of manufacturing and trading of dental, medical and mechanical instruments and the acquisition, management and disposal of participations in Swiss and foreign companies of all kinds, particularly in the fields of manufacturing and trading of dental, medical and mechanical instruments, excluding any real estate participation with a purely real estate investment character (for complete purpose see articles of association).