Machines for Wire and Mesh Production

How to choose wire and mesh production equipment

This is equipment, not mesh. This section holds the machines and lines that produce mesh and wire: you buy the machine, install it in your shop, feed coils of wire and make finished product to sell. All ten machines come from the Turkish maker Demirci Makina, with a two-year warranty.

The chain: from a coil of wire to a roll of mesh

A shop is assembled from several machines, and not all of them are needed at once. The minimum is one weaving machine: a coil of wire goes in, a roll of mesh comes out. The rest are added when you want to remove manual work or put a new item on the price list.

• Weaving. Chain-link machines are the core of the section: three models from manual to fully automatic. Beside them stands the hexagonal netting machine — a different weaving principle and a different product.
• Rolling. compact roll machine presses finished mesh into a tight roll — cheaper to transport and easier to sell at retail.
• Wire preparation. PVC coating line turns plain galvanised wire into coloured wire, butt welding joins the end of one coil to the start of the next so the machine never stops, and wire coiling lays finished wire into coils of up to 1200 kg.
• Separate products. Barbed wire of the classic two-strand type and grass wire, which is woven into chain link to make a fence opaque.

How much mesh you need per shift

This is the main question, because all three chain-link machines weave the same mesh — they differ in pace and in how much work is left to the operator. On a 70×70 mm mesh the Demirci ADF3 HS gives 240–320 m²/h, the ADF3 Classic 120–160 m²/h and the manual MF3 60 m²/h. Over an eight-hour shift that is roughly 1900–2500, 950–1300 and 480 m². Count from your orders rather than from the maximum: a machine standing idle takes the longest to pay for itself.

Wire: diameter and coating

• Galvanised and PVC-coated are different ranges. On the ADF3 automatics galvanised wire runs 1.5–3.1 mm and PVC-coated wire 3.1–4.1 mm: the coating adds thickness, and the machine is set by the outside diameter, not by the diameter of the steel inside.
• Mesh size sets both speed and wire consumption. A finer mesh means more wire per square metre and fewer metres per hour. The catalog output figures are given for 70×70 mm; for 25×25 mm they will differ, and that is normal.
• Web width. The ADF3 automatics are built for 2.05, 3.05, 4.05 or 6.05 m, and the manual MF3 takes 0.3–6.1 m. Width is agreed before the order: it determines both the size of the machine and the floor space it needs.

What is needed besides the machine itself

Every machine in this section runs on 380 V, three-phase, 50–60 Hz, with one exception: the MDBW1 butt welder works from 220 V with a 16 A fuse. Power ranges from 1.1 kW on the coiling pallet to 18–28 kW on the hexagonal netting machine, so the supply is sized for the particular set of machines. Floor space is worth checking in advance too: the compact roll machine needs 9–15 m² depending on roll length, and the PVC coating line 30–35 m², with room to add modules.

The table below holds all ten machines. Two dashes in it are not a mistake: on the barbed wire machine the diameters are listed separately for the core wire and the barb wire (both 1.2–2.7 mm), and on the hexagonal netting machine the data sheet gives a weaving speed instead of an output — 180 running metres for an 80×125 mm cell. On the butt welder no output is stated at all.