Expanded Metal
What is Expanded Metal:
Expanded metal is also named Expanded sheet, it is made from metal sheet by uniformly slitting and stretching process, producing diamond shape holes in the sheet. Comparing with woven wire mesh, The expanded metal’s diamond shape openings have higher strength and durability. This product mainly have 2 types: standard expanded metal and flattened expanded metal.
1: Standard Expanded Metal: It is made from a single sheet by die cutting. It doesn’t work loosen and retains its shape for the several years.
2: Flattened Expanded Metal: As its name, it is flattend by cold processing comparing with standard expanded metal. Flattened expanded metal provides flat and smooth surface. It is much lighter than typical expanded metal due to the flattening process.
Heanjia Super Metals has been supplying reliable high performance expanded metal products since 1984. The available materials include Nickel, Inconel, Hastelloy, Monel, Incoloy, Super Dulex Stainless Steels, etc. They are widely used in indutries that need high performance materials, the product’s working environment is high temperature and high corrosive.
Standard Expanded Metal Specifications:
| Style | Sheet size, ft | Design, size, inch | Opening size, inches | Strand size, inch | Net thickness | No. of diamonds/ ft | Opening area % | |||||
| Width, SWD | Length, LWD | SWD | LWD | SWD | LWD | Thickness | Width | inch | SWD | LWD | ||
| 0.25 inch, 20 SXM | 4 | 8 | .25 in | 1 in | .17 in | .72 in | .036 in | .073 in | .125 in | 48 | 12 | 45 % |
| 0.25 inch, 18 SXM | 4 | 8 | .25 in | 1 in | .17 in | .72 in | .048 in | .073 in | .125 in | 48 | 12 | 43 % |
| 0.5 inch, 20 SXM | 4 | 8 | .50 in | 1.20 in | .44 in | .94 in | .036 in | .072 in | .124 in | 24 | 10 | 80 % |
| 0.5 inch, 18 SXM | 4 , 6 | 8 , 10 | .50 in | 1.20 in | .44 in | .94 in | .048 in | .088 in | .155 in | 24 | 10 | 77 % |
| 0.5 inch, 16 SXM | 4 , 6 | 8 , 10 | .50 in | 1.20 in | .38 in | .94 in | .060 in | .086 in | .157 in | 24 | 10 | 71 % |
| 0.5 inch, 13 SXM | 4 , 6 | 8 , 10 | .50 in | 1.20 in | .31 in | .94 in | .092 in | .096 in | .182 in | 24 | 10 | 58 % |
| 0.75 inch, 16 SXM | 4 , 6 | 8 , 10 | .92 in | 2 in | .81 in | 1.75 in | .060 in | .099 in | .186 in | 13 | 6 | 85 % |
| 0.75 inch, 13 SXM | 4 , 6 | 8 , 10 | .92 in | 2 in | .75 in | 1.69 in | .092 in | .096 in | .195 in | 13 | 6 | 78 % |
| 0.75 inch, 10 SXM | 4 , 6 | 8 , 10 | .92 in | 2 in | .75 in | 1.63 in | .092 in | .144 in | .282 in | 13 | 6 | 77 % |
| 0.75 inch, 9 SXM | 4, 5 , 6 | 8,10,12 | .92 in | 2 in | .69 in | 1.56 in | .134 in | .148 in | .300 in | 13 | 6 | 66 % |
| 1 inch, 16 SXM | 4 | 8 | 1.09 in | 2.40 in | 1 in | 2.06 in | .060 in | .096 in | .182 in | 12 | 5 | 86 % |
| 1.5 inch, 16 SXM | 4 | 8 | 1.33 in | 3 in | 1.25 in | 2.63 in | .060 in | .107 in | .211 in | 9 | 4 | 89 % |
| 1.5 inch, 13 SXM | 4 , 6 | 8 , 10 | 1.33 in | 3 in | 1.19 in | 2.50 in | .092 in | .104 in | .215 in | 9 | 4 | 86 % |
| 1.5 inch, 10 SXM | 4 , 6 | 8 , 10 | 1.33 in | 3 in | 1.19 in | 2.50 in | .092 in | .137 in | .289 in | 9 | 4 | 85 % |
| 1.5 inch, 9 SXM | 4, 5, 6 | 8 , 10 | 1.33 in | 3 in | 1.13 in | 2.38 in | .134 in | .142 in | .295 in | 9 | 4 | 75 % |
| 1.5 inch, 6 SXM | 4 , 6 | 8 | 1.33 in | 3 in | 1 in | 2.31 in | .198 in | .201 in | .425 in | 9 | 4 | 63 % |
| 2 inch, 10 SXM | 4 | 8 | 1.85 in | 4 in | 1.63 in | 3.44 in | .092 in | .164 in | .312 in | 6.5 | 3 | 86 % |
| 2 inch, 9 SXM | 4 | 8 | 1.85 in | 4 in | 1.56 in | 3.38 in | .134 in | .149 in | .325 in | 6.5 | 3 | 86 % |
Flattened Expanded Metal Specifications:
| Style | Sheet size, ft | Design, size, inch | Opening size, inches | Strand size, inch | Net thickness | No. of diamonds/ ft | Opening area % | |||||
| Width, SWD | Length, LWD | SWD | LWD | SWD | LWD | Thickness | Width | inch | SWD | LWD | ||
| 0.25 inch, 20 FXM | 4 | 8 | .25 in | 1.03 in | .09 in | .69 in | .030 in | .086 in | .030 in | 48 | 12 | 47 % |
| 0.25 inch, 18 FXM | 4 | 8 | .25 in | 1.03 in | .09 in | .69 in | .040 in | .086 in | .040 in | 48 | 12 | 40 % |
| 0.5 inch, 20 FXM | 4 | 8 , 10 | .50 in | .126 in | .38 in | 1 in | .029 in | .070 in | .029 in | 24 | 10 | 72 % |
| 0.5 inch, 18 FXM | 4 | 8 , 10 | .50 in | 1.26 in | .28 in | 1 in | .039 in | .109 in | .039 in | 24 | 10 | 69 % |
| 0.5 inch, 16 FXM | 4 | 8 , 10 | .50 in | 1.26 in | .25 in | 1 in | .050 in | .103 in | .050 in | 24 | 10 | 60 % |
| 0.5 inch, 13 FXM | 4 | 8 , 10 | .50 in | 1.26 in | .25 in | 1 in | .070 in | .122 in | .070 in | 24 | 10 | 57 % |
| 0.75 inch, 16 FXM | 4 | 8 , 10 | .92 in | 2.10 in | .75 in | 1.75 in | .048 in | .115 in | .048 in | 13 | 6 | 75 % |
| 0.75 inch, 14 FXM | 4 | 8 , 10 | .92 in | 2.12 in | .69 in | 1.81 in | .061 in | .119 in | .061 in | 13 | 6 | 70 % |
| 0.75 inch, 13 FXM | 4 | 8 , 10 | .92 in | 2.10 in | .69 in | 1.78 in | .070 in | .119 in | .070 in | 13 | 6 | 73 % |
| 0.75 inch, 10 FXM | 4 | 8 | .92 in | 2.10 in | .64 in | 1.76 in | .070 in | .160 in | .070 in | 13 | 6 | 68 % |
| 0.75 inch, 9 FXM | 4 & 5 | 8 , 10 | .92 in | 2.12 in | .56 in | 1.69 in | .120 in | .164 in | .120 in | 13 | 6 | 63 % |
| 1 inch, 16 FXM | 4 | 8 | 1.09 in | 2.56 in | .88 in | 2.25 in | .048 in | .115 in | .048 in | 12 | 5 | 77 % |
| 1.5 inch, 16 FXM | 4 | 8 | 1.33 in | 3.20 in | 1.06 in | 2.75 in | .048 in | .123 in | .048 in | 9 | 4 | 82 % |
| 1.5 inch, 14 FXM | 4 | 8 | 1.33 in | 3.20 in | 1.06 | 2.75 in | .060 | .138 in | .060 in | 9 | 4 | 82 % |
| 1.5 inch, 13 FXM | 4 | 8 , 10 | 1.33 in | 3.20 in | 1.06 in | 2.75 in | .070 in | .138 in | .070 in | 9 | 4 | 80 % |
| 1.5 inch, 9 FXM | 4 | 8 , 10 | 1.33 in | 3.20 in | 1 in | 2.56 in | .110 in | .175 in | .110 in | 9 | 4 | 77 % |
