The company's purpose is to provide consulting services in the industrial, commercial and financial sectors; to carry out engineering and design work, to take on general contractor mandates and project management, as well as to manufacture and trade in machines and equipment of all kinds; industrial research and development; the acquisition and ownership of, as well as the takeover of, participations in shares and securities of all kinds from any public and private companies with similar objectives; the purchase, sale and exploitation of patents, licenses and trademarks from the field of the company's purpose; in general, all business, financial and industrial operations with securities or real estate that are connected with the aforementioned objectives; the establishment of branches in Switzerland and abroad.