The purpose of the company is the partial or complete manufacture and distribution of machines, devices and their parts, as well as other activities in the field of hard materials, particularly the metal processing industry, and the implementation of customer projects in the industries of photovoltaics, semiconductors, optoelectronics and other related high-tech industries in the field of processing hard and brittle materials. The company may participate in other companies, acquire, exploit, manage and sell real estate and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and perform all legal transactions that may be necessary or suitable to promote the purpose of the company or the development of group companies. Furthermore, the company may participate directly or indirectly in group financing, in particular by granting loans to its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies, or by providing guarantees, sureties or other securities of any kind for their liabilities to third parties, or by participating in cash pooling systems, even if these loans or securities are in the exclusive interest of its direct or indirect shareholders or other group companies and are provided free of charge.