Technical Specifications - Materials - Wayne Wire Cloth Products, Inc.

Wayne Wire manufactures a comprehensive range of wire mesh, perforated, and expanded metal products. The specifications below define the full range of capabilities available for each material type.

Wire Cloth Specifications

Square Mesh

Mesh Size: 2 × 2 to 500 × 500
Wire Diameter: .001" to .063"
Opening Width: .001" to .465"
% Open Area: 11.6% to 86.5%
Nominal Micron Rating: 25 to 11,348

Rectangular Mesh

Mesh Size: 18 × 14 to 120 × 108
Wire Diameter: .0035" to .011"
Opening Width: .0048"×.0058" to .045"×.060"
% Open Area: 35.7% to 70.6%

Twilled Mesh

Plain and Dutch Weave

Mesh Size: 12 × 64 to 400 × 2800
Wire Diameter (Warp / Shute): .001–.024" / .0008–.0165"
Nominal Micron Rating: 1 to 280
Absolute Micron Rating: 6–7 to 330–350

Perforated Metal

Standard Perforated

Material Thickness: .007"/.009" to .062"
Perforation Diameter: .016" to 17/64" (.2656") and .200" Square
Perforation Spacing: .026" to 5/16" (.3125")
Hole Pattern: Staggered or Straight — Diagonal and Special Patterns Available
% Open Area: 19% to 65%

Etched Perforated Metal

For tighter tolerances and fine openings

Material Thickness: .002"/.004" to .008"/.012"
Perforation Diameter: .0035" to .017"
Open Area: 25% to 65%

Expanded Metal – Carbon Steel

Standard Flattened Expanded Mesh

	Opening Size	Overall Thickness	Meshes per Foot	% Open Area
½" 18F	.312×1.00	.039	24×9.5	61%
½" 20F	.375×1.00	.029	24×9.5	60%
¾" 13F	.688×1.781	.061	13×57	74%
¾" 16F	.750×1.75	.048	13×57	74%

In-House Manufactured Expanded Metal

.012"–.032"

Base Thickness

.026"–.043"

Expanded Thickness

5–7 to 19.5–20.5

Holes per Inch

.015–.055"

Hole Size Range

Types of Materials

We work with a comprehensive range of metals and alloys to meet your specific application requirements.

Aluminum Brass Bronze Carbon Steel Copper Electro Galvanized Black Epoxy Electro Tin Plated Steel Galvanized Steel Hastalloy Inconel Monel Nichrome Nickel Phosphorus Bronze Stainless (All Grades) Tin Titanium

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Material Standards

Unless otherwise specified on the purchase order, raw materials used are manufactured to the following standards:

Wire Cloth

ASTM E2016
Perforated Metal

IPA CQ Standards
Expanded Flattened Mesh

ASTM F1267
Sheet or Coil Stock

ASTM A 480/A 480 M

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Sintering / Diffusion Bonding

Wayne Wire has the capability to sinter/diffusion bond materials in order to provide a stronger, more dimensionally stable material, or to combine materials of different mesh sizes in order to provide multiple levels of filtration in a single, bonded material.

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