The company's purpose is to provide engineering services, develop, manufacture and assemble apparatus, plant construction, special machines and finished units, as well as take on assembly contracts of all kinds. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in or merge with other companies, acquire, encumber or sell real estate, grant loans and take out credits, and enter into all business transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it.