Development, manufacture and distribution of technical and process engineering systems for the pharmaceutical and food industries; this includes packaging systems, process systems and production lines as well as used systems; trading, importing, exporting and brokering of such systems; provision of service activities for these systems, in particular their dismantling, installation and commissioning; participation in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquisition or establishment of similar, related or other companies as well as investments in these; financing of own or third-party accounts, as well as provision of guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.