all activities, operations and services related to the modernization, installation, dismantling, maintenance and repair of lifts, stair lifts, platform lifts as well as any machine for the horizontal and vertical transport of people and goods, any mechanical part and any automated system. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company may also carry out all commercial, financial and industrial activities directly or indirectly related to its purpose as well as any real estate activity (in Switzerland, in terms of acquisition, exclusively the acquisition of buildings with an exclusively commercial vocation). It may also provide financing for its own account or for that of third parties and conclude guarantees and securities for the account of its subsidiaries and third parties.