In today’s sustainability movement, it’s difficult to find a manufacturing process that is considered green. Yet that’s just what producing perforated metal is. In this blog post for EDC Magazine, experts from the IPA discuss how the scrap from perforation can be recycled for future use.
Perforated Metals Give Punch to Sustainability
Mike Gilboy, IPA Director, discusses how forming a strong industry alliance is a way to overcome challenges, foster growth and produce benefits through several collaborative initiatives.
Harnessing the Power of Collaboration for Niche SMEs
In many tough conditions associated with water filtration, perforated metals provide strength, structural integrity and flexibility for a long-lasting, cost efficient solution. IPA Technical Committee Chair, Keith Mailloux, offers key functions and advantages of perforated metals, as well as considerations for specifying the right hold configuration and metal options.
Perforated Metals: Clarifying Options
Noise reduction is an increasingly important challenge for appliance designers, as OEMs seek to meet rising consumer demands for quieter, less intrusive products for their homes. Members of the IPA offer several tips in Appliance Design’s November issue on how to incorporate perforated metals in overcoming the challenge.
Keys to Incorporating Perforated Metals for Noise Control
Industrial Perforators Association Launches Online Knowledge Center
Metal punching may seem like a straightforward process with limited uses. In reality, however, it’s a sophisticated process suitable for a wide variety of applications.
A Perforation Primer: Fundamental
Considerations of Metal Punching
Perforated metal and metal fabric have overlapping functions and aesthetic components within various applications. Although upfront cost can be a deciding factor for a designer, many other factors go into determining the value of one material versus another. Aesthetics, strength, durability, sustainability, resistance to environmental elements, fabrication costs, and application-specific needs all may play a role. It is important to examine certain criteria before deciding whether perforated metal or metal fabric is more appropriate for a give application. Keith Zin of the IPA explores this topic in Metalmag's October issue.
Punches and Weaves
Designing with perforated metal? Here's a handy guide, with emphasis on how to accurately specify, the diverse functions of the material, design challenges, material selection, and new technologies.
Design Concepts: Perfect Your Punch
The IPA and association member company Ferguson Perforating offer a closer look at the unique metal-perforating process in Metal Forming magazine's August issue. The article expands upon the process' ability to create thousands of holes per minute without creating a heat-affected zone.
Perforated Metals: Add Punch to Product Designs
An IPA member company case study discusses IAQ in hospital operating rooms. The role of air filters in HVAC systems is particularly important in IAQ applications. In the most advances of these systems, perforated metal can act as a cost-competitive and effective replacement in baskets, diffuser sections and downstream discharge grilles.
Perforated Materials in High-Purity IAQ Applications
A cover story in Metal Architecture's April issue, written by IPA's Bob Farber, provides the reader with an in depth look at the different architectural applications of perforated metal, expanded metal and wire cloth while at the same time expanding on the aesthetics, acoustics, and ventilation qualities of each.
Choosing the Right Metal for Your Design: A look at the difference between perforated metal, expanded metal and wire cloth
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