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In 1970, the foundry built a continuously operating cupola furnace with a capacity of 9 to 15 tonnes per hour for DM 8 million. Four electric induction furnaces were installed downstream. The new facilities, with contemporary dust removal technology, were also good for the environment - the air quality in Büdelsdorf and the surrounding area improved considerably.

Although the name Carlshütte was still very much present, the company now traded simply as Ahlmann GmbH. The production of swing loaders, which started in the early 1950s, had been outsourced to the independent company Ahlmann Maschinenbau GmbH since 1972. Here the company was doing successful business with the completely newly developed AS 7 and AS 12 models, which went into series production in 1969 and 1972 respectively.

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  1969 saw the series production at Ahlmann of the newly developed AS 7 swing loader. It had a 69 HP engine, and the bucket had a capacity of 1 cubic metre.