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#16 mild steel mesh with 1.31mm aperture and 0.28mm wire diameter. With 68% open area and lightweight build, it’s perfect for screens, vents, and fine sieving tasks. Easy to cut and work with, this mesh suits light industrial, workshop, and creative applications.
Our #16 woven wire mesh, crafted from plain mild steel, features a 1.31mm aperture and a fine 0.28mm wire diameter, offering a lightweight yet functional mesh for screening, ventilation, and protective applications. With a high 68% open area and a low weight of just 0.63 kg per square metre, this mesh is ideal for projects where maximum airflow, visibility, or drainage are important, but some structural stability is still required. The 16 holes per inch mesh count provides reliable coverage, making it well-suited to fine sieving, insect screening, or air and light passage applications.
The mild steel material gives this mesh strength and flexibility at an affordable price point. It is particularly suitable for indoor or dry environments, or where it will be painted, powder coated, or otherwise protected after installation. The fine wire diameter ensures that it is easy to shape, cut, and work with, while still offering enough strength to function as a protective layer or support structure.
This mesh is commonly used in ventilation covers, protective panels, agricultural enclosures, light filtering systems, and even in arts and crafts projects. It can be mounted to timber or metal frames, formed into cylinders or cones for filtration use, or used as a backing mesh behind primary screens or barriers. In fabrication shops and workshops, it’s a go-to material when a fine but open mesh is needed for sieving, sorting, or low-impact shielding.
Thanks to its flexible and workable construction, it’s also useful for creating partitions, display panels, and cages for small animals or tools. It blends strength with a fine weave, making it suitable for tasks that don’t require heavy-duty load bearing but still need durability and resilience.
Wire mesh materials are also available in brass, copper, galvanised steel and blue PVC.
Speciality Metals is known to be the United Kingdom’s best up-and-coming small-quantity metal company. As part of our partnership with The Mesh Company we are able to offer the best wire mesh materials at simply unbeatable prices.
Over 50,000 customers of Specialty Metals are provided with fast, friendly customer service every year. We’re the place to try when you need metal of any shape and size. We’re based in Warrington, UK. We pride ourselves on our rapid turnaround and a large range of options.
Check out our recent article 304 Grade Stainless Steel Woven Wire Mesh: Overview and Benefits for a deeper dive into all things woven mesh.
Our goal for our blogs and help guides is to answer as many questions as possible to help to explain the possibilities of mesh to our customers. Contact us today if you have any questions at all. We are always really keen to help in any way that we can.
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Unit 1, Farrell Street, Warrington,
Cheshire, WA1 2WW, United Kingdom
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