The company's purpose is to plan, design, advise, and execute projects in the fields of industrial, engineering, and commercial businesses, particularly in the refinery sector; to provide technical consulting services to industrial companies in the refinery sector; to acquire, hold, sell, and trade patents and licenses in the fields of engineering and refineries; to finance commercial and engineering transactions, including all related tasks in the area of guaranteeing commercial transactions; to engage in national and international trade with goods of all kinds in the non-ferrous sector; to acquire and trade in participations in other companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company may acquire real estate for its own business activities. By decision of the board of directors, branches may be established in Switzerland and abroad. Furthermore, the company may conduct all business that is connected with its purpose.