358 Security Fence
358 Security Fence
3D Curved Welded Mesh Fence Panels for Sports and Estates
What the Bend Actually Does
A 3D panel is a flat welded mesh with the horizontal wires pressed into a shallow V across the width of the panel. Each pressed line behaves like a fold in a sheet of paper: it resists bending in the direction that matters, which is across the face of the panel.
Fewer Posts for the Same Span
Because the profile carries load, panels can be set at wider centres than a flat mesh of the same wire. That saving in posts and footings is usually where the price difference between a 3D panel and a flat panel actually comes from.
The pressed profile is only as strong as the wire it is made from. A panel pressed from light wire looks the same in a photograph and deflects under the same wind load, so the wire diameter and the mesh size decide the performance, not the shape.
Where a client compares two quotations on price per panel alone, the difference is almost always in the wire diameter and the post spacing behind it.
Posts, clips and gate hardware are quoted against the post section and the run, so nothing on site is improvised.
Posts and Fixings
Panels are fixed to square hollow section posts, either bolted through the post face or held by steel clips.
Square post with a pressed cap so water cannot enter
Through bolts or clips matched to the post section
Panels set level along the run, not stepped between posts
Base plate or direct footing depending on the ground
Sports Grounds and School Boundaries
The open mesh takes a ball impact and springs back, and it keeps the boundary visible from both sides, which is why the profile is common around pitches and school grounds.
Where the run is used for ball containment rather than a boundary, panel height and post spacing are set by the ball, not by the fence line. A 3 m run with posts at 3 m centres behaves very differently from the same panel at 2.5 m centres.
Packing and Delivery
The pressed profile lets panels nest, which is why a container of 3D panels carries more panels than the same container of flat mesh.
Panels are bundled and banded, posts are bundled separately, and clips and caps travel in cartons marked against the run they belong to. Loading is planned so that the bundles can be lifted out in the order the run is erected.
What to Send
Send the run length and height, the mesh size and wire diameter, the colour, the post section, the post fixing, and the destination port.
Supply only outside China. Erection is by the client's contractor against our setting-out drawings.
