Sintered Wire Mesh from the Sintered Metal Professionals at Lawrence Sintered Metals

Sintered wire mesh is created through the process of sintering. Sintering is a process that applies heat and pressure to bond the contact points of all wires together to form a securely fused wire mesh product.

 

Sintered Wire Mesh Advantages

Sintered wire mesh has many advantages that make it an ideal choice for industrial applications. Advantages include:

• High mechanical strength, with the ability to maintain a steady filter rating under high pressure.
• Easy to clean with a variety of filter cleaning techniques and reuse.
• Heat and corrosion-resistant.
• Easy to fabricate, weld, punch, shear, or otherwise form into various parts.
• Wide range of filter ratings.

Lawrence Sintered Metals offers several main standard types of wire mesh laminates, including options with perforated metal.

Our Common Sintered Wire Mesh Specifications

Sintered wire mesh products, with or without perforated metal, from Lawrence Sintered Metals, are manufactured in standard sheet sizes of 2’x4′, or 4’x4′. These sintered wire mesh laminates can be custom-made to meet a thickness requirement, a filtration rating, and/or a certain number of layers. If you have your own custom design, we can sinter just about any combination of wire mesh layers together to form a sintered mesh part.

These can be shipped as flat sheets, or we can cut a variety of custom-sized discs or donuts, or cut different-sized square and rectangular sheets. These sintered wire mesh laminates can also be rolled into tubes to form cylindrical sintered filters. We specialize in helping through the entirety of the ordering process, from initial design to the finished product, from sourcing the wire mesh to sintering the multiple layers to forming and fabricating into the final assembly.

 

Can you Sinter Together Multiple Layers of Wire Mesh?

In short, yes! Laminating multiple layers of woven wire mesh together is a more common application of the sintering process, which compared to a single layer of wire mesh, has increased mechanical strength, greater preservation of filter rating under pressure, is easier to clean, and has better structural integrity. A multiple-layer sintered wire mesh part can maintain the filtration rating of its finest mesh layer, while also maintaining the mechanical strength of its coarser support layers.

Common applications of sintering multiple layers of wire mesh together include:

• Liquid and gas filtration
• Nutsche filters
• Fluidized beds
• Chromatography frits
• Centrifuges
• Hydraulic filters
• Sand control screens in oil wells
• Polymer filtration