The company's purpose is to study, design, manufacture, maintain, trade, buy and sell, and distribute machinery, plants and industrial products, as well as provide service, marketing and consulting services in the industrial and renewable energy sectors in Switzerland and abroad. The company may own, manage, sell or license patents, trademarks and any type of intellectual property. The company may engage in personnel management, intermediation and placement. The company may carry out any operation and activity in Switzerland and abroad to acquire, directly or indirectly, interests and participations in other companies or enterprises or businesses with a similar or related object or connected to its own, as well as any and all types of activities aimed at promoting the company's purpose. The company may acquire commercial real estate and establish branches and subsidiaries, participate in consortia and groupings of companies, in Switzerland and abroad. The company may perform all acts necessary, at the sole discretion of the administrative body, to achieve the company's purpose.