Design

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.

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.

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.

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.

Knitted wire mesh products offer low cost solutions when compared to other technologies such as sintered materials and high temperature elastomers. For volume production, our relatively low raw material and tooling costs, together with high speed automated manufacturing processes result in very competitive unit costs. This is also the case for lower volume customer requirements where our extensive experience and specialised equipment facilitate cost effective bespoke solutions.

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.