We are a world-class supplier of engineering raw materials. Our objective is to provide all our customers, from the small machine shop to the large multi-national corporation, a supply path that continuously delivers the highest levels of service, quality and value.
L163 / L164 / L165 aluminium sheet - a high strength rolled sheet product containing 3.9 to 5% copper and clad with 1050A aluminium alloy. Our product is solution heat-treated, cold worked and naturally aged to a substantially stable condition, to achieve the T3 condition.
L163 / L164 / L165 aluminium sheet has fair resistance to atmospheric corrosion attack. The alloy offers improved machinability and excellent anodising capabilities.
Commercial applications for this engineering material include:
We stock L163 / L164 / L165 in sheet and strip.
Our knowledgeable staff and resident metallurgists will be pleased to assist you further on any technical topic. Smiths Metal Centres Limited also boasts an in-house UKAS Accredited Testing Laboratory which is unique within the multi-metal and plastic stockholding sector. We believe this underlines our total commitment to quality and our ethos of being the complete service provider.
A technical datasheet for L163 / L164 / L165 is available in PDF file format. To view and download, please click here.
We offer in-house processing options - for more information, please refer to our processing services.
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