Expanded Metal
Expanded metal mesh is also called pulledd plate wire mesh. A rigid piece of metal that has been slit and drawn into an open mesh pattern in a single operation. It is stronger, lighter in weight and more rigid than the original base metal.
Expanded metal are produced from solid sheets or plates of carbon, galvanized and stainless steel, as well as aluminum and a variety of alloys of copper, nickel, silver, titanium, and other metals. Conventional mesh is formed in a diamond pattern. It has other pattern of square, round, triangle, scale-like opening.
Expanded metal mesh has a wide range of uses, graceful shapes , strong processing capability. A major advantage of expanded is that the mesh is formed from a single piece of material and the process is not wasteful and therefore cost effective.
Expanded Metal in accordance with the shape of the hole is divided into: Diamond Mesh, Hexagonal Mesh,Special Shaped Mesh.
Expanded metal is mainly used with concrete in buildings and construction, maintenance of equipments, making of arts and crafts, covering screen for first class sound case. Also fencing for super highway, studio and highway. Heavy expanded metal can be used as step mesh of oil tanks, working platform, corridor and walking road for heavy model equipment, boiler, petroleum and mine well, automobile vehicles, big ships. Also serve as reinforcing bar in construction, railway and bridges.
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| Small expanded metal (light expanded metal) | Medium-sized expanded metal (standard diamond expanded metal ) |
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| Heavy expanded metal | Anti-glare expanded metal |
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| Hexagonal (tortoise shell type) expanded metal | Shaped expanded metal |
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| Galvanized expanded metal | PVC expanded metal |
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| Oxidation expanded metal | Aluminum expanded metal |
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| Application examples: expanded meta fence | Applications: Mechanical Protection |
| specifications | width (m) |
length (m) |
weight (kg/m2) |
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| mesh thickness(mm) | distance short(mm) |
distance long(mm) |
strip(mm) | |||
| 0.5 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 1.8 |
| 0.5 | 10 | 25 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 2 | 0.73 |
| 0.6 | 10 | 25 | 1 | 0.6 | 2 | 1 |
| 0.8 | 10 | 25 | 1 | 0.6 | 2 | 1.25 |
| 1 | 10 | 25 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 2 | 1.77 |
| 1 | 15 | 40 | 1.5 | 2 | 4 | 1.85 |
| 1.2 | 10 | 25 | 1.1 | 2 | 4 | 2.21 |
| 1.2 | 15 | 40 | 1.5 | 2 | 4 | 2.3 |
| 1.5 | 15 | 40 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 4 | 2.77 |
| 1.5 | 23 | 60 | 2.6 | 2 | 3.6 | 2.77 |
| 2 | 18 | 50 | 2.1 | 2 | 4 | 3.69 |
| 2 | 22 | 60 | 2.6 | 2 | 4 | 3.69 |
| 3 | 40 | 80 | 3.8 | 2 | 4 | 5.00 |
| 4 | 50 | 100 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11.15 |
| 4.5 | 50 | 100 | 5 | 2 | 2.7 | 11.15 |
| 5 | 50 | 100 | 5 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 12.39 |
| 6 | 50 | 100 | 6 | 2 | 2.5 | 17.35 |
| 8 | 50 | 100 | 8 | 2 | 2.1 | 28.26 |