Development and production as well as trade in packaging for chemical products on its own account and on behalf of third parties. The company may establish subsidiaries, branches and agencies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire and sell real estate, grant loans and other financing to its direct and indirect parent companies and shareholders as well as their direct and indirect subsidiaries, and provide collateral of all kinds for liabilities of such companies and shareholders, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges, global assignments, security transfers, security assignments and indemnification agreements, whether against payment or not.