One of the beautiful things about starting an herb garden is that you can grow herbs just about anywhere, from a traditional garden bed in your back yard to a potting garden on your patio or along your kitchen window. You can even try a hydroponic herb garden. Fresh herbs, like basil and thyme, can […]
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What Could Be Crawling Through Your Ventilation Pipes?
Critters like raccoons, squirrels, and even possums can be incredibly industrious when they want to get into a place. They have been known to scale fences, dig under gates, and even crawl into ventilation pipes searching for warmth, shelter, and food. The thought of having a raccoon or possum suddenly scurry out of a ventilation […]
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How to Stay Safe During Tick Season
It’s vacation season in the U.S., which also happens to coincide with tick season. According to the Centers for Disease Control, ticks are the most active from May to August. If you plan on camping, hiking, or even just doing yard work on a forested property, it’s important for you to take proper precautions. That’s […]
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Wire Mesh with Alloys
Adding alloys to a metal will change the character of that metal, making it useful in different ways. For example, an alloy can make a metal stronger or more resistant to weather or even more flexible. At Lawrence Sintered Metals, we can help you determine if adding alloys to our stainless steel mesh products will […]
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London Tower Fire Reminds Us of the Importance of Fire Safety
Over the last week, it has been hard to miss the startling images of the Grenfell Tower fire in Kensington, an area in West London. Flames blazed out of the tall building filled with residential flats. The fire was so devastating that even days after it was extinguished. A tragedy on this scale – the […]
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Boundless Art with Metal Mesh Wire
Anything can be art, whether that means paint on a canvas or fluttering fabrics twisting in the wind. Anyone with a vision can also be an artist. You don’t have to paint like da Vinci, carve like Michelangelo, or design something like Notre Dame to be worthy. In fact, plenty of the most fascinating pieces […]
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Our Steel Mesh Can Protect Animals and Humans
We all remember the tragic story of Harambe, the silverback gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo who had to be killed when a three-year-old boy fell into his enclosure. This situation underscores just how important it is to protect both humans and animals at the zoo. Zoos across the United States and the world are wonderful […]
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Use This One Important Rule to Make Your Property More Secure
Let’s face it, if Mission Impossible or any number of spy movies has taught us anything, it’s that if someone with enough brains, resources, and determination wants to steal something, they most likely can. Fortunately, the vast majority of thefts are crimes of opportunity. Most thieves are drawn to the quickest and easiest score. We […]
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Is Your Fence Strong Enough to Hold Your Pet?
The fact that approximately 44% of all households in the United States include a dog only underscores how popular canines are as pets. After all, is there anything better than having your best friend rush to the door to greet you with joy every single time you return home (even if you just ran out […]
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Give Your Spring Garden the Protection It Needs
How frustrating is it to go outside to visit your garden only to see that someone has gotten there before you and gobbled up all of your veggies, fruits, and flowers? Yes, rabbits, deer, and other furry critters are incredibly cute, but that doesn’t mean you want to hand over your lettuce, cucumber, strawberries, pumpkins, […]
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Will Zika Be Back This Year? Protect with Metal Mesh
Spring is here, which means sunshine, flowers, new leaves…and mosquitos. Last year, the Zika virus ravaged many countries and even made its way up to the United States, infecting women in 44 states, and causing severe birth defects in 51 babies born in the U.S. Southern states, like Florida and Texas, along with Puerto Rico […]
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Sieving to Find Gold
At some point in your life, you’ve probably seen a cartoon of a gold prospector. This would be an old man with a long beard and floppy hat with patches on his overalls. He’d be kneeling next to a river furiously panning for gold. That pan actually acted as a sieve, allowing the water and […]
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RFI Shielding Helps Prevent Devices from Messing with Each Other
In today’s world, our lives are filled with electronic devices. You may start your day off with the squawk of an alarm clock, check your work email on your phone as your coffee brews in the coffee maker, and listen to the news on the television as you put the finishing touches on your work […]
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Let Spring In…But Keep the Pollen Out!
Spring is here! The flowers are blooming. The sun is shining. The….AH-CHOO! Oh, that’s right. The pollen is here too! According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, about 50 million people in the United States suffer from nasal allergies. That works out to be roughly 30% of adults and 40% of children. If […]
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How to Keep Out the Snails with Wire Mesh
Snails are kind of cute in their own way. However, though they may seem slow, harmless, and generally squishy, they are actually one of the greatest enemies of your trees and gardens. Snails love to munch on the new leaves and bark of young trees and to dine on the tender rind of new fruits. […]
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Using Woven Wire Mesh for Bee Keeping
In the past we’ve written about how woven wire mesh can be used to keep creepy, crawly critters out of your home, but what if you want to keep the critters in? Beekeepers need to make sure their bees don’t wander too far afield, especially if they need their bees to pollinate a specific area. […]
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Creating Closures Big and Small with Stainless Steel Wire Mesh
Whether your pet is an adorable gerbil or a 300-pound pot-bellied pig, you probably need to keep them contained in some fashion or another. After all, you can’t exactly have Mr. Oinkers strolling down the street, right? At Lawrence Sintered Metals, our stainless steel wire mesh is so versatile that it can be used to […]
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Did Our Wire Mesh Help Your Fries Come Out Extra Golden and Crispy?
Emmmm, there’s nothing like crunching down on some delicious French fries, especially when your belly is crying for food. Of course, it takes a lot of different tools and ingredients to make those French fries happen. You need a potato, of course, as well as the frying oil, but what else? Metal. Wire mesh, like […]
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Wire Mesh is used by Archaeologists for Digs
Archaeological findings like this help us understand more about our own past and where we came from. At Lawrence Sintered Metals, the metal meshes we offer can be used on archaeological digs to help archaeologists and researchers sift through dirt and even fine sand to make the next great historical discovery! Neanderthals didn’t exactly go […]
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Could a Yellow Fever Outbreak Spread from Brazil?
Recently, two doctors from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wrote a warning that a larger-than-usual outbreak of yellow fever in a rural Brazilian village could possibly spread across borders, much like the Zika virus. Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of two doctors who wrote an essay in the New England Journal of Medicine, […]
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