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The unique properties of our knitted wire mesh make it an ideal choice for many demanding aerospace applications where few materials will withstand the challenging installed and environmental conditions typically encountered.
Flexible & Malleable
Energy Absorbing
High Resilience
High Strength
Aesthetically Pleasing
Environmentally Friendly

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Flexible & Malleable

The flexibility (ability to be bent without breaking) and malleability (the ability to withstand plastic deformation without fracture) of our products can be designed according to customer needs. Through a careful selection of materials, mesh structure, and tooling design, we can produce mesh components in an almost limitless range of shapes including sheets (blankets), highly flexible hollow mesh tubes, and 3-dimensional rigid structures such as prisms, cubes, spheres and doughnuts, etc.
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Energy Absorbing

Depending on the design of the mesh and the materials used, knitted wire mesh structures can absorb energy elastically i.e. with no permanent deformation unless its elastic limit is exceeded. Typical applications include oven door seals where the mesh is behaving as a tubular spring compressed along its length. Plastic energy absorption occurs where the energy absorbed by the mesh structure is dissipated as heat. For example, in bump stops and vibration isolators applications (see also High Resilience).
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High Resilience

Resilience can be defined as the ability of a material to absorb energy when deformed and to release that energy on unloading. The feature is particularly beneficial in applications such as seals (often incorporating resilient cores), gaskets and vibration isolators for use in both high and low temperature environments. Our engineers can work with customers to select the materials and manufacturing methods required to configure a product that will perform to the most exacting specifications.
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High Strength

Knitted mesh is made of wire, comprising continuous lengths of filament of almost any material type, formed into interlocking loops. This unique structure produces a material that, whilst being highly flexible, has the tensile strength characteristics of the component filament material. Applications include very fine flexible mesh nets such as those used in animal enclosures that can withstand snow loading of >250kg per m2.
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Aesthetically Pleasing

Knitted mesh can be processed into virtually any shape from flat mesh through circular, rectangular or cylindrical form. Materials can be selected from a huge variety of size, type and colour ranging from very fine (<0.05mm) and translucent up to 0.8mm diameter. Where appropriate designers can make their selection bespoke to their specific needs, from almost invisible for desecrate application, or bright and bold for use in art or architectural applications.
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Environmentally Friendly

Our customers are almost invariably seeking to reduce costs and/or enhance their products or process efficiencies. The added benefit of these partnerships is that all of our products are non-toxic and contribute to the 3Rs of the circular economy: Reduce, Re-use and Recycle, which fits perfectly with our own strapline of the 4 Ps: Protecting people, property and our planet.

KnitMesh Technologies offers all-metal resilient cores used in the aerospace industry primarily as sealing gaskets – where high resilience is required – and in various high temperature applications.

Commercial, military and general aviation aircraft all use wire mesh in their critical systems. For example, our all-metal knitted mesh components provide excellent protection from vibration and shock and can be used wherever adverse environmental conditions would damage or destroy conventional elastomeric or polymeric components. Our knitted mesh has multiple applications within the aviation sector, including filtration for aviation castings, incorporation in composite materials, temperature resilient cores for airframe door, window and hatch seals, support bushings for engine fuel injector pipes as well as a wide range of anti-vibration, electromagnetic compatibility, and electrical screening applications.

We have the capability to knit mesh from virtually any metal, mineral or man-made filament or yarn and then add value further by fabricating in a wide variety of simple or complex shapes and forms to meet specific customer needs. The unique combination of low weight and high tensile strength, coupled with its structural integrity, renders mesh an ideal choice for aviation designers looking for the ultimate in material versatility.

Knitex® Shielding Tapes

Our Knitex® Shielding Tapes offer ultimate protection against microwave, RFI & EMI interference (Radio Frequency Interference & Electro-Magnetic Interference).

Typically used within electrical and electronic cable assemblies, cable jointings, grounding, static discharge and within connecter assemblies.

  • Available in a range of materials to suit requirements
  • Can be supplied with a crimp for greater thickness
  • Available in widths from 6mm – 200mm wide

Knitex® Fluid Seals

Knitex® Fluid Seals provide enhanced levels of EMI shielding and incorporate the additional
benefit of an effective seal against fluid and dust ingress.

Our Shielding Gaskets with Fluid Seals are typically used in the sealing of enclosure lids, doors and removable cover plates and as interface gaskets for use in vent panels and windows.

  • Available in a range of materials to suit requirements
  • Supplied with a Neoprene Sponge, Silicone Sponge or Silicone Tube

Cores & Gaskets for Hatch/Door Seals

Cores and Gaskets are commonly used within the aviation sector, particularly for hatch/door seals.

Our Cores and Gaskets have high elastic compression properties with almost no plastic deformation.

  • Available in a range of materials to suit requirements

Features and Benefits

  • Resistant to temperature extremes
  • High abrasion resistance to mechanical wear
  • Superb conductivity in transferring heat
  • Available to fit a huge range of operating requirements
  • Highly resilient under pressure
  • Provides mechanical protection and reduces gas erosion
  • Wide range of materials available to suit temperature and corrosion requirements

Aviation Castings

Knitted wire mesh has a unique interlocking asymmetrical wire loop structure that in a layered and compressed form is an ideal medium for foundry filters used in aviation metal casting.

EMC Pan Mesh

Applied like a bandage for EMC integrity, grounding and static discharge around cable joints and connections, our knitted mesh tape is a flexible, light-weight but strong alternative to other more fragile tapes.
KnitMesh Technologies supply EMC shielding tape as a Pan Mesh approved manufacturer for the Eurofighter project.

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Suitable Materials for Aerospace

Aluminium arrow
Nickel & Nickel Alloys (Monel, Inconel, Incolloy, Haynes) arrow
Plated & Insulated Copper (Polyurethene, Tin, Nickel, Silver) arrow
Specialist Wires and Super Alloys arrow
Stainless Steel arrow
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