PalmSHIELD’s wire mesh fencing solutions reduces dependency on chain link and offers an attractive and appealing architectural alternative. Wire mesh fencing provides unobstructed visibility, aesthetics, and security while delivering a value added fencing solution.
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Woven wire mesh is made in a similar means to woven fabrics. Wires are woven together to create wire mesh in different patterns. Welded wire mesh simply lays the vertical wires over the top of the horizontal wires and use a welding process that fuses the two wires together. The most common materials used to create woven wire and welded wire mesh include carbon steel, galvanized steel, aluminum mesh and stainless steel. Heavier woven wires must be pre-crimped. The material remains very strong and firm after the crimping process.
Wire mesh fencing is available at any of our locations including Sioux City, Iowa; Des Moines, Iowa; Iowa City, Iowa; Grand Island, Nebraska; Lincoln, Nebraska; Omaha, Nebraska; Rochester, Minnesota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In Madison, WI and Salina, Wichita, and Kansas City, Kansas, we operate as AmeriFence Corporation.
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When it comes to protecting a perimeter or a facility, there are several types of mesh fencing in common use, which all provide an alternative to palisade fencing panels.
However, there are key differences between each mesh fencing type – which can impact on the level of security they provide.
Chain-link fencing
Chain link fencing – sometimes referred to as wire mesh fencing, chain-wire fencing, cyclone fencing and wire netting – is a woven metal fence made from steel wire, which is often galvanised.
The diamond ‘mesh’ of the fencing is formed by the steel wires being bent into a zig zag pattern, with the ‘zig’ hooking with the wire immediately on one side and the ‘zag’ hooking with the wire on the other side.
The mass manufacture of chain-link fencing has its origins in Norwich, which, in the s, was a centre for cloth weaving. Charles Barnard developed the chain-link fence manufacturing process in and based it on cloth weaving machinery. A company – Barnard, Bishop & Barnard – was established in Norwich to manufacture chain link fencing by machine.
Chain-link fencing can offer a cost-effective solution that is easy to install, however the nature of its manufacture can limit the number of design variants and styles available.
In addition, the steel wires, depending on their diameter, can be easy to cut through with the right equipment. There is also a level of ‘flexibility’ in chain-link fencing which can make it easier to climb than other mesh equivalents.
Woven wire fencing
Woven wire mesh fencing is manufactured by creating an array of intersecting wires, with the wires being woven over and under the perpendicular wires to create a mesh.
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This mesh fencing is often used in agriculture and can provide a relatively inexpensive option. Due to its design, woven wire mesh can be bent without breaking – so can withstand considerable pressure.
However, its wires can be worked loose by determined intruders and if cuts are made in the mesh, the wires can unravel from each other.
Welded wire fencing
Welded wire fencing is manufactured by electrically welding metal strands together to form a mesh or grid pattern, and as it is more robust than chain-link fencing or woven wire fencing, is commonly used to secure at-risk buildings and infrastructure.
Like many mesh fencing options, it can withstand heavy gusts of wind and by using grid patterns with small apertures, welded wire fencing can be designed so that it is difficult to climb, as intruders will find it difficult to get any grip.
However, determined intruders using the right tools can part welded wire fencing at the welds, in order to make an opening large enough for a security breach to occur.
Expanded metal fencing
Our founder, John French Golding, was the original inventor and patentee of the expanded metal manufacturing process – and manufacture began at our Hartlepool site in .
Expanded metal mesh fencing is manufactured by simultaneously slitting and stretching the material fed from coil or plate. Fencing panels are then cut to the required size.
Expanded metal mesh has many key advantages over chain link fencing, welded wire mesh fencing and woven wire fencing solutions.
There are a range of expanded metal fencing solutions in the ExMesh™ range – from Fastrack, which has been designed as a low maintenance solution to protect railway infrastructure, to Class 3 fencing, which is one of the few high security fencing systems in the UK to hold LPCB SR3 accreditation under the standard LPS : Issue 7.
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