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Just a few years after the end of the war, Carlshütte is once again fully present overseas, as here with a booth at the Great New York State Fair in 1951.
Dishwashing machines were already being developed at Carlshütte in the early 1950s. The idea originated in the USA. For Europe, however, the innovation comes too early - there is not a market for appliances of this kind yet.
In 1951, in the small town of Grand-Mère, in Quebec province in Canada, Severin Ahlmann and an American partner set up Adanac Foundry Industries Ltd, the Canadian subsidiary of the Carlshütte. Hans Schlothfeldt, the foundry manager at the Carlshütte for many years, took over the operational development of the local plant. Grand-Mère marked the beginning of the globalisation of Ahlmann's ventures, which will also play a big role for ACO: a paradigm is established that laid the foundations the later "ACO worldwide".
The 1950s-style illustration of Severin Ahlmann's numerous overseas travels and activities appeared in April 1954 in "Glück auf", the Carlshütte's in-house magazine. This shows an Ahlmann stove in Canada, radiators and shower trays in the USA. While in Mexico and Brazil, Ahlmann bucket loader are at work, and ships of the Ahlmann fleet are sailing in the Atlantic. In 1954, there were already rudiments of what ACO does today in the Americas. The vision of that time has become a reality.
