Flat coloured asbestos cement panels
Description
Coloured AC sheeting smoothed surfaced on both faces, with the colour appearing on one face only. Flat and curved sheets.
Used for curtain walling, spandrel panels and applied as double sheets back to back, such as in external balustrades.
Asbestos Products Ltd produced a coloured AC sheet named Artbestos in the 1930s for interior/exterior use. Colours listed as: Grove green, Sky blue, Stucco brown, Ochre, Shell pink, Cream and Buff.
In the 1950s an imported product named AC Glasal (also known as just ‘Glasal’) was known to be marketed in the ACT. AC Glasal was a fully compressed coloured sheeting with a vitreous enamel finish and produced by Eternit in Belgium. Marketed for interior wet areas and external spandrel panels. It is thought this was an identical product to the Colorbord sheeting. Glasal was extensively used throughout Europe and the UK.
Colorbord was a James Hardie product from 1960 to the early 1980s. described as a smooth faced compressed AC pre-finished sheet. used for both internal and external applications. The coloured AC sheeting market was dominated by James Hardie.
The Colorbord range of colours and their market names varied slightly with an extended colour range introduced in 1967. By 1980 the colour range was reduced back to 14 colours.
Brands/products
- Colorbord
Note: Not Colorboard – a BurnieBoard wood product
- Artbestos
- AC Glasal (Eternit Belgium)
Years of production/use
Prior to 1990
Residential uses
Houses and apartment blocks – spandrel panels on balustrades and curtain walls
Industrial uses
Government buildings and schools, office blocks, motels, all industrial building applications – advertised as interesting infill variation for construction of schools, shopping centres as well as interior partitions in offices and factories.
Be aware
Some approaches to commercial remediation may have incorporated leaving in situ and covering with non-ACM materials.
