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Expanded Metal

Expanded Metal and Expanded Metal Grating are truly versatile and functional materials for literally hundreds of uses where rigidity, strength, light weight, free passage of light and air and economy are required.

Available Products:

• Regular Expanded Metal (Carbon Steel)
• Flattened Expanded Metal (Carbon Steel)
• Stainless Steel – Regular
• Stainless Steel – Flattened
• Aluminum – Regular
• Aluminum – Flattened

Specification Guide

This guide will assist you determine the exact type of material that may require.

Style Dimension: (SWD)
Nominal dimension Short Way of Design.

Design Size:
Actual dimension SWD and LWD Measured from a point to a corresponding point on the following design.

(SWO)
Short Way of Opening.

(LWO)
Long Way of Opening.

Strands:
The sides of the expanded metal expanded.

Strand Thickness:
Gauge thickness of metal expanded.

Strand Width:
Amount of metal fed under dies to produce one strand.

SHEARING TOLERANCES

Bond:
Where two strands intersect. Eliminates prongs or jagged edges.

Random:
This type of shearing leaves prongs or jagged edges.

Applications

Regular Expanded Metal

Regular Expanded Metal is a finished product as it comes from the press after having been due cut and expanded. Illustration shows that the strands and bonds form a sharp angle to the original plane of the solid sheet.

Flattened Expanded Metal

Flattened Expanded Metal is a regular expanded metal which has been cold rolled leaving a flat smooth surface.