Provision of services and implementation of training for the development, design, construction, marketing and application of machines and plants; development, registration and commercialization of industrial property rights, in particular patents, in the aforementioned business area. 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.