Workability & Data Sheet

Excellent WORKABILITY

Ai Panel can be easily fabricated using various cold workability techniques

SAS Supplier Group does provide some cost-effective services (SAS InHouse Service) to assist you in preparing your works and projects. Practical complementary products can also be ordered to ease your project installation, cleaning and maintenance hassles.

It is strongly recommended to consult with a professional fabricator and tool supplier to ensure the best and intended results.



Fabrication : Not hot worked. Very readily cold forbade. For piercing and blanking, punch to die clearance should be about 7% of the thickness. Sharp tools are required. Bending radii = 1 to 1.5t.

Machinability : Readily machinable by conventional methods. Machine and cut at high and continuous speed with sharp tools of steel or tungsten carbide, and copious lubrication.

Cleaning & Maintenance of Ai Panel

DATA SHEET

Ai Panel ™ & variant Ai Panel.Gloss ™ – pre-finished metal sheeting having colour finish not exceeding 1 mm – is 100% fire-compliant to Australian National Construction Code (NCC) 2019 (Amdt.1) Volume 1 C1.1(b), C1.9(a) & (e)(v), C1.10(a)(ii) & (viii), C1.14(a), A5.5(2), Schedules 3 & 6, and Volume 2 at 3.7.1.1(e), permitted to use in any Class 1 to 10 buildings of any Type A to C constructions as non-combustible building elements and their components, ancillary elements, internal linings, materials, assemblies and attachments to ceilings, non-loadbearing internal walls, common walls, and external walls.

Delivered as flat sheet with protective laminated films on both sides, approx. 98% of Ai Panel ™ & Ai Panel.Gloss ™ consists of 5052-marine grade solid aluminium alloy dosed with apprx. 2.5% magnesium and 0.25% chromium.

Coated with SAS colours and finishes and H32 tempered, Ai Panel ™ & Ai Panel.Gloss ™ has excellent cold machinability, workability, corrosion resistance, fire resistance and low density, ideal for architecture, shopfitting, signage and other general sheet metal work non-loadbearing applications.

Architects, builders, installers, shopfitters and signage providers are requested to use the following information and independently ascertain material suitability for their requirement.

Typical Ai Panel Compositions

5052 Solid Aluminium Alloy Chemical Compositions

Mechanical Properties

Physical Properties

Combustibility Test Results – based on NCC provisions

Notes on Workability

Panel Weight

Linear Thermal Expansion