The purpose of the company is to manage its own assets as well as to acquire, hold, manage, finance and dispose of participations in other companies of any kind, in particular in the industrial sector. The company may participate in other companies, acquire, establish or merge with similar or related companies, acquire, sell and encumber real estate, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may grant its subsidiaries and third parties direct or indirect loans or other financings and provide collateral of any kind for the liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or by way of guarantees of any kind, whether remunerated or not.