42 Creation and design of the aforesaid goods and of the machines and molds used for this purpose, such as machine tools, automated manufacturing machines, packaging machines, particularly for processing artificial resins and plastics, and of machines and parts thereof, such as molds; of semi-finished goods of semi-worked plastics, including compounds of these, such as semi-finished goods of semi-worked plastics for the manufacture of bottles, including more specifically pre-forms, of goods made of plastic, particularly closures for containers, particularly for bottles, not of metal, particularly stoppers, caps, and similar objects, of packagings and containers, suitable for packaging and/or conserving beverages in particular, and also other liquid or non-liquid products, particularly in bottles; research and development of production and processing technologies relating thereto and in connection with the properties of plastics, in particular of PET, and its uses, particularly as a packaging material; technical assistance and technological support services