Apparatus and method for imparting selected topographies to aluminum sheet metal and application there for

A method for making a material handler with at least one material contacting surface, comprising the steps of:

• obtaining aluminum sheet that has been rolled by a work roll having a surface 50% to 100% covered by indentations lacking facets and having a depressed central area relative to a mean height of the surface and a raised, smooth peripheral lip having a greater height at an apex thereof than the mean height of the surface, the aluminum sheet having a static coefficient of friction with the at least one material of between 0.62 and 0.79;
• forming the aluminum sheet into the at least one material contacting surface.