The purchase, sale, import, export, distribution and trade of oil, refined petroleum products, gas, electricity, coal, other energy sources, as well as raw materials and products derived from industrial and steel activities. The company may carry out any consulting activity and provide services to third parties in the energy, industrial and commercial sectors; acquire participations in companies active in the same sector, as well as in commercial, industrial or financial enterprises based in Switzerland or abroad; acquire industrial and business real estate as permanent business establishments. Furthermore, it may grant financing of any kind and provide guarantees in favor of the participating companies or its shareholders and, more generally, carry out all commercial and financial operations deemed useful to achieve or directly or indirectly favor the social purpose, including the creation of branches or subsidiaries both in Switzerland and abroad.