Some Points Need to be Considered When Using Stainless Steel Cable Mesh to Build Large Aviaries

In recently years, flexible stainless steel cable mesh as a kind of high-quality animal enclosures building materials, is more and more preferred by designer and contractors of wild animal zoos. And choosing flexible stainless steel cable mesh as the material of bird aviaries will get more advantages compared with other wire mesh materials. This is thanks to the following features of stainless steel cable mesh:

1. Light weight with very huge size, very suitable for large span installation.

2. High transparency and has good invisibility, very suitable for the viewers.

3. Good flexibility also with high strength, can protect the bird from damage.

4. The cable mesh can be produced into any shape, can match with any individual design.

When choosing stainless steel cable mesh to build the aviaries, there are following questions need to be noticed:

1. The flexible stainless steel cable mesh has ferrule type and inter-woven type, both of them are suitable for the bird aviaries.

Consider from the appearance, those two types have respective style.

Consider about the mesh size, the ferrule type mesh can be produced into any width and length without limited. The inter-woven type mesh is only unlimited in the width, but it will need to joint when the mesh over 12 meters long.

Consider about the weight and transparency, the inter-woven mesh has lighter weight and better transparency.

Consider about the cost, because the inter-woven type mesh is hand-woven, so the cost will be a little higher than the ferrule type mesh.

So, our clients can choose the cable mesh types based on the points above.

2. About the mesh size of the aviary mesh, the range is normally from 2cm to 5cm, and 2.5cm are normally used. For the big birds such as Macaws also can use 5cm mesh size, while other small birds can use 2.0cm mesh size. And for some other clients required smaller mesh size, it will need to be special made.

3. The material of flexible stainless steel cable mesh is normally to be SS304 and SS316. The cost of SS316 material is a little higher, but the different is not too much. So, considering about the longer service life, we suggest using SS316 material to build the bird aviary.

4. About the coloring of flexible stainless steel cable mesh. BZWIREMESH can treat the mesh by oxide coloring process, the normal colors are black and borne (also called Annealed bronze). Because the color is processed by oxide process, not painting, so the color of the mesh will be stable and can stay very long time, our clients don’t need to worry about it.