Architectural mesh panels for advanced functionality and integrity of your building

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Heanjia is known for quality, durability and integrity in the screen market. We have evolved into a wide range of architectural screens known for innovative and supreme engineering, excellent craftsmanship and supreme aesthetic appeal. Presently, we represent the excellent quality and attractive architectural screens for louvers, grilles and sun controls.

The architectural mesh screens are crafted to your unique design and tailored needs based on existing platforms or new product development. Our advanced test facilities position us as an industry leader in developing mesh that excel in performance under new and upcoming test standards and code requirements. Eventually you get that works.

Our project management and customer service teams are experienced to balance your ultimate vision with timely delivery. We strive to make lasting connections.

Architectural mesh panels for grilles are functional and decorative, they can add detail and life to any building. You can get custom designed screens to your specification. These screens are an innovative solution that constitutes our answer to the expectations of modern architecture, featured by the search for new, small forms and outstanding functionality. A unique design of the solution makes it feasible to customize the parameters to a specific application. Advanced production technologies ensure the highest precision and aesthetic features. Get more information of the architectural screens that open up new opportunities of space development and products to all architects, designers and engineers.

These screens create a new visual effect, hence creating an added value to the design. Open area control convenience by high open area ratio with a comparatively small slot size. Functional structure and design of the mesh ensures outstanding strength and potential to handle large loads. Heanjia produces architectural mesh of stainless steel and aluminum. These screens are ideal for both outdoor and indoor applications. Due to their outstanding durability, they are best suited for places facing heavy traffic and increased humidity. These panels are also commonly used in facades, canopy roofs, parapet walls, sun protection, metal ceilings, wall covers, partition walls, curtains, railings and balconies, panel fences, gabions, scraper mats, linear and curved drainage, covers for trench heating and raised floor.

You can find architectural mesh screens adjusted to desired dimensions and technical parameters optimized as per functionality, durability and cost. Select from a wide range of mesh solutions for your applications or get assistance in choosing the best suited architectural mesh panel. We help you achieving the sustainable building as our commitment through construction detailing and commissioning. The designer panels are designed as per the needs and requirements for all the functions in the building and their relationship to each other. Extensive programming enhances energy savings by placing spaces in the most beneficial position for daylight, thermal control and solar screening. These panels also uncover opportunities for various functions to share space hence decreasing the overall square footage of the building. Architectural screens meet the functional and operational needs of the facility when chosen correctly. So contact us to get your perfectly suited screen at a cost-effective price.

Woven mesh screens for filtration to decorative applications

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Woven wire mesh has an endless range of applications. In the domestic environment, these screens are used in tea strainers, flour sieves, coffee filters, fire guards and fly screens. They also have applications in filters for motor cars, and are used in the production of floor coverings, chipboard, hardboard and various other construction materials. In the industrial process, woven mesh screens have numerous applications. The precision woven mesh screen has the ability to maintain accuracy of aperture size while offering a wide scope for the use of wirecloth as a filtration and screening medium for a variety of particle/ fluid and gas separation cleaning and sizing applications. Woven mesh cloth shows several characteristics and based on the configuration of wire thickness in context to its aperture size, varies in texture from being fine, soft and flexible like silk to become to becoming rigid and durable like steel. Innumerable properties of Monel mesh mesh cloth are found in expanded and perforated metals as well as in woven wire cloth.

Several benefits of mesh include:

  1. extensive range of filtration
  2. High open area and flow rate
  3. Closely controlled and accurate aperture
  4. Smooth surface, no sharp edges or burrs
  5. Very high temperature tolerance
  6. Can be used under high pressure
  7. Versatile- suitable for forming rigid shapes
  8. Good resistance to chemicals
  9. Highly durable
  10. Self supporting
  11. Suitable for less rigid media
  12. Special aperture requirements can be met without the need of expensive tooling
  13. Stable performance under high tension
  14. Weaving processes involves no use of punches or pierce which create stress based weakness
  15. Point contact on screen permits free screening and minimize blinding

Besides to uses in filtration and separation processes, mesh screens are commonly used for strengthening, ventilating, radio and micro-wave screening, screen printing, transportation belts, plastic extrusion, catalysts, precious metal recovery, heat and light diffusion, spark protection and more.

Filtration mesh is the core of the screening equipment and also some selection parameters should be considered when purchasing a screen. The most essential design factor while choosing a strainer is specifying the perforation or mesh size of filter screen. The straining element is a mechanical filter that eliminates and retains particles which are too large to pass through yet allows the flowing media to flow unobstructed. By cleaning the flowing media, the straining element helps to secure costly downstream equipment like pumps, meters, spray nozzles, compressors and turbines.

Generally, the screen openings should be about ½ of the diameter of the largest permissible particle. The largest permitted particle is known as the particle size that can flow through downstream equipment without causing damage. For instance, if the maximum permitted particle is 1/16 inch then recommended screen size is 1/32 inch. Besides to the particle size, the magnitude of debris in the running screen should also be considered while finding the suitable hole size. Filter screens can only be used to eliminate insoluble floating contaminants. The most widely used mesh range is 40 Mesh for the Y-type strainer.

Little Bit Of History Behind The Evolution Of China Window Screen

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During previous times, the gentle buzz of summer evening led to furious scratching of sleepless times. It was until Civil war hanged the idea completely. Human have found quite a good fight between good air and insects with solid shutters, sweat soaking bedding and leather door rapes. But science has revolutionized the window treatments by introducing wire mesh screen. That’s when the China Window Screen came into existence.

A bit of the history:

Not long ago, people believed that certain diseases like malaria and yellow fever were results of malign miasma in air or infected bedding. Experts have studied that work of the Cuban physicians and puzzled over outbreaks he treated in the present US Army camps and end up designing experiment to prove that misquote transmitted yellow fever. In the year 1900, he placed the volunteers in same controlled room. The mosquito bitten volunteers came down with fever, which helped him in proving his points more.

Ingenuity of the Yankee:

Americans were known to have window screens before scientific breakthroughs, which changed ways in which people think about and prevented some of the deadly diseases. At that point, windows were covered in the cheesecloth for letting air circulate but further keeping the airborne dirt and flying critters out. Cheesecloth was not that elegant and was not at all durable. After that, Civil War came and fine wire mesh started to get manufactured in mid-18th century for making the flour sieves and screens for the cheese manufacturers.

The Bennett and Gilbert Sieve Making firm quickly accumulated the surplus mesh wire as they were no longer sold in the Southern states. But then an employee coated the wired mesh with some grey paint to coat it against rust formation, and started selling that window screens. Later, the company expanded into the screen window making firm.

Perfect design to last long:

It was not before Civil War that the idea of using China Window Screen was introduced in every household and porches. During the early 20th century, homes used to feature removable summer screens for all the window openings and screened sleeping porch was retreat for the entire family when the temperature became unbearable. After that, air conditioning turned sleeping porch into that quaint artifact and the space challenging families started renovating screened porches into enclosed rooms. However, the idea of window screen survived even within such changes. It is still considered to be an important defense mechanism against sharing space with everything that might flies, bites, crawls and creeps when the windows otherwise remain open.

Decorative art as applied previously:

The earliest examples of window screens were designed for decoration and protection. In the Ming Dynasty China, ornate carved latticework was used for covering the windows. The design was utstanding but the practical purpose was limited to humans and animals. Then, during the Mughal Dynasty, wooden screens were created to cover windows. The screen casts changing patterns of shadow and light but cannot provide protection against bugs. Therefore, the wired mesh screens were then finally invented to provide protection against insects.

Perforated Sheets for Sound Absorption and Decorative applications

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Designers nowadays try various methods and forms to improve appearance of PMM. Different perforation patterns with regular circular holes can create a texture of PMM sheets in serial production to become a first choice of customers. With variation and size and density of perforations by the surface area purposeful artistic effects are attained varying from abstractions to specific visual forms redeveloping architectural elements. The art works are usually designed by orders. By managing the spatial orientation PMM sheets, including mutual arrangement of the sheets at angles, bending them or creating curved surfaces, facades and walls are transformed from the flat type to a structured type featuring the spatial patterns with light and shadows. It also enriches the public building views with large open surface and offer an extraordinary look. In addition to decorating the buildings, perforated sheets also offer the beneficial properties like enhanced rigidity, thickening and enhanced permeability.

Sound and Noise Barrier

Another essential function of perforated sheet is related to shielding of sound waves in a specific frequency range. The acoustic function of sheet obstructs the sound propagation- reflection of sonic waves by the facial surface and absorption of sound energy by the internal structure transforming it into thermal energy. The suitability of sound barrier is determined by the ratio of intensities of incident and transmitted waves. As the acoustic impedances of a metal surface of perforated metal and of air vary in different orders, the major part of sound energy reflects from the surface if the latter is regular. It has a positive shielding effect on the secured side however can improve noise level at the side from where sound emits resulted by  the summing with echo. Use of perforations permits some part of sound waves come in and involves absorption mechanisms. Use of sound energy by passing the wave through perforated holes caused by friction losses of oscillating air molecules interacting with the walls of holes. The efficiency of damping is larger when the contact area is larger.

Magnitude of holes per square determined by its spacing which also has a significant role in the variation of the ratio showed sound energy and passed through the sheet. It was found that micro-perforated sheets where perforations are decreased to mm or even lower size offer highly effective sound absorption by decorative metal mesh without additional classical absorbing material. The micro- perforated sheets are commonly used in machinery, aerospace, aircraft manufacturing and different industrial enclosures. A common sound absorption mechanism is resonator type in which absorption occurs due to oscillation of the air column enclosed between the wall and hole. The oscillations are supported by springy response of air volume compressed by the sound wave coming through the hole from one side and reflected from the wall from another side. Maximum absorption occurs at a frequency of resonance, stated by geometrical parameters of the system. For the best soundproof barriers, the structure implies additional absorbers from porous or woven materials having significant thickness ranging from few cms to several tens of cms.

China Window Screen- Keeps insects out with aesthetic appeal to surroundings

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China Window Screens are manufactured from copper and other copper alloys for use in the wooden frames. Copper insect screens are widely used since a long time. Pure copper is woven and used with fine wire mesh to produce Copper Window Screen which is suitable for keeping insects and bugs out. Copper window screens are preferred for houses, villas, office buildings and hotels due to their aesthetic appeal. Pure Copper Screen Mesh is widely used for RFI shielding, Faraday cages, screens and insect screening. It is woven in various methods including Twill weave, Plain weave and Dutch weave.

Key features of Copper Window Screens are

  • Transparent
  • Decorative
  • Light weight
  • Ideal for salt water environments
  • Tarnishes but doesn’t corrode
  • Soft and easy to work with
  • Keeps flies and insects out
  • Long life
  • High resistance to acid and corrosion
  • Easy to clean
  • Durable & stable structure
  • Flexible mesh that can be cut easily

Applications in which Copper Window Screens are used include windows and corridors to prevent users from bugs. It is a high quality and anti-corrosive product that is ideal for inland and coastal regions. Copper Wire Mesh is durable in various types of atmospheres and has resistance to atmospheric corrosion. It is affected by various oxidizing agents including ammonia acid compounds, ferric chloride, cyanides and nitric acid. Weaving of Copper Wire Mesh is performed as per the industry standards and is 99.9% pure copper. It naturally creates a thin green layer known as patina. Copper Wire Mesh is a popular option for different types of users including artists, home owners, designers and architects due to its unique color. Copper Woven Wire Mesh is preferred by home owners and designers for various residential projects including soffit screens, fireplace screen, gutter guards, insect screens and custom manufactured infill panels or decorative wall panels. Sculptors, metal artisans, wood workers and architects use Copper Mesh due to its dark amber-red color. Copper Wire Mesh is useful for numerous industries including

  • Pest control fumigation
  • Energy storage
  • Robotics & power automation
  • Electric heaters
  • Tactical military shelters & modular containers
  • Space program initiatives (NASA)
  • Gamma irradiators
  • Air & liquid filtration and separation
  • Health, body and mind enrichment
  • Metalsmithing & bookbinding

Copper Window Screens made by window screen factory are widely used for windows, porches and doors due to their resistance to salt, brine and atmospheric corrosion. Copper insect screen consists of 90% copper and 10% zinc wire with high strength and durability. Copper insect screen is stronger than pure copper and zinc has resistance to abrasion. The Copper Window Screen has a beautiful dark bronze finish and has high resistance to corrosion, acids and insects. It is widely used in the doors and windows against insects in the inland and coastal areas. Copper Window Screen is preferred for various applications in homes, offices and other buildings due to its aesthetic appearance.

What Are Perforated Metals?

 

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Perforated metal is also known as the perforated plate, perforated sheet and perforated screen. Perforated metal is a sheet metal which is manually stamped or mechanically punched to make different patterns of slots, holes and decorative shapes. The holes in a perforated sheet are punched in a uniform pattern across the metal sheet. The production and manufacturing of decorative metal mesh perforated metals include plastic, titanium, Inconel, Monel, copper, tinplate, aluminum, brass, galvanized steel, cold rolled steel, and stainless steel. Usually, there is a boundary at the perimeter of the perforated sheet that does not have any punched holes and provides further stability to the perforated sheet.

Key Characteristics of Perforated Metal

  • There is a plethora of different varieties that the perforated sheet comes in like sizes, types of material, hole shapes and gauges.
  • The diameter of a hole in any perforated sheet ranges from a thousandth part of an inch and goes up to 3 inches and more sometimes.
  • The holes are punched in/stamped in the 1-inch thick steel plate as well as on a material which is as thin as a foil.
  • Perforated metal is capable of combining beauty with functionality.
  • A perforated sheet can be used for a decorative purpose or a heavy load bearing structure.
  • Perforated metal delivers stability and style to the screens, guards, sign panels, partitions, and enclosures.

   Applications of Perforated Metal

  • Separator usage- ceramic and mining industries, paper and pulp, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and for food.
  • Cover usage- Protecting covers, stove grills, radiator grills, storage, audio speaker cover, ornamental cover, machinery cover.
  • Residential usage- dust boxes, trash cans, microwave oven shield, planters, kitchen furniture, and boilers.
  • Architectural usage- light fixtures, ceilings, tables, chairs, exterior panels, lighting equipment, partition, wall paneling, patio furniture.
  • Tubing and vents
  • Granulation purpose- chemical products, fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, instant coffee, cube, and industrial chemicals.
  • Sieve usage- for screening ravels, sands, coal, seed and grains.
  • Automotive usage- Air filter, front grills, mufflers, oil filters, interior and exteriors.

 

Types of Perforated Metal

                                              

  1. Round Hole Perforated Metal

The most common type of perforated metal is round hole perforated metal. The sheets are offered in the variety of sizes, gauges, materials, and diameters. The straight row and staggered row pattern are most popular.

 

  1. Square Hole Perforated Metal

Square hole perforated metal is used where the size of the area is large, and it is open. This perforated sheet is very versatile and lightweight.

 

  1. Slotted Hole Perforated Metal

Slotted hole perforated metal is preferred over the round hole perforated metal sometimes. It provides a passage for materials and enhanced ventilation. There are various layouts and slot sizes available in the market for this type.

 

  1. Decorative Perforated Metal

Decorative perforated metal is used when the concern is a more aesthetic appeal. It is appropriate for many applications regarding architectural structures.

 

  1. Architectural Perforated Metal

It is different from the decorative perforated metal as it deals with the applications of ceiling panels, sunscreen, exterior cladding or any other appealing look.

 

  1. Hexagonal Perforated Metal

Hexagonal perforated metal is mainly used for airflow as it leaves 80% of the area open.