After the wedge wire itself is fabricated, it will have to lie on a support, which, as previously mentioned, can include round or screen wire or even strip/sheet.
Screen wire and wedge wire screen is often manufactured in two, at times three types of screens: Flat screen and Cylindrical screen are the most dominant types, but within cylindrical, there can be round and basket screens.
Flat screen is comprised of screen wire cut to precise lengths and is dry fit or welded to the screen’s structure. Conversely, cylindrical screens are made up of a spool of screen wire fed into a machine that winds the wire into a cylinder and subsequently welds the wire to the supports as the screen rotates and expands.
If necessary, cylindrical screens can but cut and rolled flat into a flat screen configuration, and flat screens can also be roll formed into cylindrical screens. Each of these will depend on the application.
Specific Applications include:
Architectural Applications
Food Processing
Microbrewery Beer Tanks
Mineral Processing
Oil and Gas – Well Screens
Pulp and Paper Manufacturing
Water Reservoir Intakes
Wedge wire could be utilized in all of the above industries as well as many more applications across other industries.
Wherever filtration may be required, wedge wire should be carefully considered due to its effectiveness and the fact that it can be supplied as a final product.
Obviously, the selection in alloy and thickness will be dependent on what market and segment the screen is employed in. A metallurgist or technical expert can assist if there are any particular questions on this.
