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Bathtubs continued to make up the bulk of the turnover, with sales increasing by almost 70 percent in the three years mentioned. Business with boilers developed even better, even though their share of total sales was considerably lower at 7.6 million. Their sales quadrupled compared to 1970. The sales of ACOWELL however were declining.

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  Aerial view of ACO Andernach around 1970. In the foreground was the then very futuristic-looking head office building.
  
  

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  Stove production at ACO Andernach.
  
  

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  View of the stove warehouse at ACO Andernach.
  
  

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  View of the bathtub warehouse: between 1952 and 1972, ACO Andernach sold around 2.6 million cast iron bathtubs and shower trays.
  
  

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  Flat and sandwich panels were produced on technically advanced equipment – in production widths of 1.40 m and 3 m: this was the raw material for further processing into partition walls and balcony partitions.
  
  

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  "Where others stop, that’s where ACO starts." Advertisement for ACO shower partitions in the 1970s.

The positive development was due in no small part to the Social Democrats, previously so criticised by Severin Ahlmann: in the first years of the Brandt government, the number of completed flats in the Federal Republic rose from less than 500,000 in 1970, to more than 700,000 in 1973 - never before or since has a higher figure been reached. The housing boom had a direct impact on the order books at ACO Andernach. Bathtubs, boilers and shower enclosures were in big demand.