The purchase, sale, holding, design and negotiation of real estate in Switzerland and abroad, as well as participation in companies, in particular the acquisition of shares and securities. The company may, for this purpose, acquire real estate of any nature in accordance with Art. 2 para. 2 lit. a of the Federal Law on the Acquisition of Land by Foreigners (LAFE). The company also has as its purpose the import, export, purchase, sale, processing, manufacture, transformation and trade in general of metals, hard metal tools, machinery of all kinds for the processing of all types of metal.