The company's purpose is to trade and distribute, as well as maintain and provide services related to technical and medical gases, as well as devices, accessories, spare parts, and consumables from the gas sector. The company may establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire similar or related companies, or merge with them, 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. It may acquire, manage, encumber, and sell real estate, properties, intellectual property rights, and licenses of all kinds.