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8 Things to Consider When Purchasing Wire Cloth | Newark Wire

21 Jul.,2025

8 Things to Consider When Purchasing Wire Cloth | Newark Wire

If your company needs wire cloth products, you have an extraordinary range of options to choose from. That means you need a clear understanding of some important functional requirements in order to select the right wire cloth.

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Here’s a closer look at 8 features to consider when purchasing wire cloth.

1. Temperature

Understanding temperature thresholds is especially important in high-temperature applications when a fireproof wire mesh is needed. Given woven wire mesh can be made of any malleable metal or alloy, you should choose the specific material that works for your processes. A sampling of some of the maximum operating temperatures includes:

2. Viscosity

For applications such as wastewater treatment, oil handling and other petrochemical filtration, viscosity is an important consideration. Thinner, less thick fluids flow through filters faster. For highly viscous material processing, you need to discuss which type and size of wire mesh are necessary to achieve optimal results. In many cases, viscosity is directly related to temperature.

3. Pressure drop requirements

As materials flow through a filter and contaminants are removed, the pressure drops. After being filtered, the pressure will be lower than before. The wire cloth you choose for your filter media plays a big role in determining the pressure drop rate. Ultimately, the pressure drop will reach a point where the filter needs to be changed. Efficient wire mesh solutions that meet your pressure drop requirements reduce costs and contamination risks.

4. Specific gravity

Tailoring your wire cloth specifications often depends on the use. For many manufacturing processes, wire cloth mesh baskets and sieves are used to measure and test the specific gravity of a filtered material. Commonly made of stainless steel or brass, these products need to be ordered to sync with your specific gravity testing needs.

5. Particulate matter size

Particulate size is a seemingly obvious consideration when choosing the right wire mesh. Knowing the size of retained particles helps inform the mesh count, opening size and wire diameter. Test sieves in particular should be purchased to meet the required standards for retained particulate matter sizes.

At Newark Wire, we recommend selecting a size slightly smaller than that required.

None of these components work in complete isolation. For example, different mesh products with the same particle retention rate can have very different flow rates and pressure drop rates. Working collectively with your wire cloth provider helps you identify the right product for your manufacturing needs.

6. Flow Rates

Flow rate, viscosity and pressure drop are highly interrelated. For processes that mandate a required flow rate, you’ll want to consider the Percentage of Open Area to help determine the right mesh product.

7. Contaminant Types

The types of contaminants will help determine the material to be used, wire diameter, wire mesh density, tolerance, opening size and weave type.

8. Corrosive Effects

While most wire cloths are susceptible to corrosion, there are materials such as titanium and alloys like Hastelloy, Inconel and Nichrome that can withstand more corrosive applications.

Bringing It All Together

How do these myriad and interconnected criteria come together to select the ideal wire cloth? It’s best done in partnership with a skilled wire mesh producer like Newark Wire.

A process engineer who decides to use wire cloth in a liquid system must coordinate pressure-drop requirements with liquid temperature, viscosity and specific gravity. The engineer must also integrate information on particulate matter size and flow rates, and consider the nature of the contaminants or corrosive environment to be encountered. Once the parameters are set, hundreds of standard cloths are available in the common metals. In most cases, the engineer will not need to custom design a cloth, and manufacturers are helpful with application and metallurgical assistance for specific problems.

In summary, when choosing wire cloth, consider:

Key determinants including temperature, viscosity, pressure drop, specific gravity, particulate size, flow rates, contaminants and corrosive effects
That many of the considerations are interrelated
Working with an experienced wire cloth company like Newark Wire helps you select the right product

Guide to Woven Wire Mesh (Cost, Weave Types & Vocabulary)

Believe it or not, woven wire mesh is all around us. From the test sieve cloth used to test the particles that go into our medicine to parking garage facades that keep protect us from falling, it is truly one of the most versatile mateirals in the world.

Now, there are a lot of technical terms and information surrounding the world of woven wire mesh. In order to ensure you make the most of your wire mesh solutions, it's critical that you have a basic understanding before initiating conversations with a wire mesh supplier.

W.S. Tyler has been a proud manufacturer of woven wire mesh for over 150 years. We strive to help build your confidence in your woven wire mesh solutions so you can spend more time fine-tuning other aspects of your operation.

We wrote this article to serve as an introduction to woven wire mesh, giving you a better understanding of the product so you can better prepare yourself when reaching out to woven wire mesh suppliers. You will learn:

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The fundamental woven wire mesh specifications
The weave types used to categorize woven wire mesh
What alloys you can use to weave woven wire mesh
The forms in which woven wire mesh is available
How you can enhance the performance of woven wire mesh once it's been woven

Understanding Woven Wire Mesh Specifications

When it comes to woven wire mesh, there are some vocabulary/technical terms that you will need to understand in order to implement a solution that works. The most important of these terms are mesh count, opening size, and wire diameter.

At its core, these three specifications are what will control the performance of woven wire mesh.

1. Mesh Count

The mesh count is the number of openings in a linear inch. In other words, the amount of openings within an inch when measured either vertically or horizontally.

The photo below is an example of a 2-mesh square weave. If you count from center to center of wires, you will count two inside of one linear inch.

2. Opening Size

The opening size is measured as the distance between two adjacent warp wires. As the mesh opening is what determines what passes through the material and what doesn't, its probably the most important mesh specification to your operation.

Regardless of the type of weave, the opening size must be considered.

To help explain, below are two photos of wire mesh. Figure A is a standard square weave, while Figure B is a dutch-twilled filter cloth weave.

Figure A

Figure B

3. Wire Diameter

The wire diameter is the diameter of the wires that are used to weave the wire mesh. The wire diameter can affect both the opening size and mesh count of the weave.

For this reason, the wire diameter must be calculated prior to weaving. That said, the diameter of the wire can be altered during the weaving process, but only slightly.

Weave Types

Woven wire mesh is often categorized by its weave type. The two predominant weave types you will encounter are square mesh and filter cloth.

While they are both woven wire mesh, they are divided into two groups because there is a substantial difference when in terms of engineering, performance, and cost.

We are going to break down each type of mesh so that you can decide which weave type will work best for your needs.

Square Mesh

A weave type is considered square wire mesh when the warp and weft wires feature identical wire diameters. Genreally, these square mesh weaves are less complex than filter cloth weaves, featuring a basic over-under pattern.

Having said that, there are some variations in these patterns as well. For instance, instead of having a single wire in the weft and warp direction, you can have a single wire in the warp direction with two in the weft direction.

Here are some 3D figures of square mesh weave types:

Now, Square mesh is available from 4 mesh down to 325 mesh. It can be used for filtration like minimesh, but it isn't as robust as minimesh would be.

MINIMESH® Woven Metal Filter Cloth

MINIMESH is W.S. Tyler's line of woven metal filter cloth. These weave patterns are highly engineered and designed to deliver finer specifications and greater mechanical strength than square mesh weave types.

For this reason, MINIMESH weave types have been used for over 100 years when accurate filtration is needed.

Filter cloth is generally more expensive than square mesh. This is because these weave types require more time, material, and attention to detail to weave.

In terms of specifications, a MINIMESH filter cloth can be implemented to handle a particle size range of 319 um down to 7um. Below you will find 3D figures of some filter cloth examples, giving a better idea of how their complexity differs from standard square mesh weave types:

If you want to check out all of the MINIMESH weave types, you can view them in our 3-D Minimesh Viewer on our website.

Alloy

In a lot of cases, the material used to weave the mesh is a big cost driver. Stainless steel, specifically 304 or 316 stainless steel, is one of the most widely used alloys used to weave wire mesh.

But sometimes stainless steel isn't suited to handle the job. Fortunately, woven wire mesh can also be woven from materials such as nickel, plain carbon steel, aluminum, hastealloy, inconel, and more.

To learn more about the alloys you can use to weave you next wire mesh solution, review the following article:

If you are looking for more details, kindly visit Flame Screen Mesh.

Choosing the Right Wire Cloth Filter Alloy

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