Ahlmann Nederland in Ammerzoden is an energetic company with over 35 years of experience in the delivery, maintenance and repair of machines for contractors and industrial companies.
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Arjan van den Oord
The management of the company is executed by Arjan van der Oord.
In addition to the daily routine Arjan’s interests mainly go out to the commercial field; personal contact with our buyers in order to come to the best choice of machine possible.
How it all began ...
Because the Van den Oord brothers only wanted to use the best of the best materials in their contracting firm, they explored and tried about everything there was available in their field.
In 1971 for example, they bought the first three Ahlmann Swing Shovel Loaders at the Hannover Messe. Until that moment these machines had made no headway in The Netherlands, because the contractors did not trust the slewing ring. Several importers of repute considered them as unmarketable.
The Van den Oord brothers, however, had such good experiences with them, that they did not hide their enthusiasm
Importer.
In the spring of 1973 two Germans entered the office of the Van den Oord brothers. At a certain point they asked if they knew a good importer of the Ahlmann products in The Netherlands. And they did: The Van den Oord brothers in Ammerzoden, the very men the eastern neighbours were talking to at that precise moment.
The Ahlmann men didn’t much like the idea: a contracting firm selling machines to its competitors. They never heard of that before.After lots of phone calls and visits eventually they did decide to take their chance with the Ammerzoden contractors.
Neither party has ever had any regrets. Ahlmann-Germany because especially Toon van den Oord turned out to be a born salesman and the Van den Oord brothers because they now had a product for which there was an increasingly great demand
