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Filters are a media or components fabricated with filter media to remove particles from fluid or gas, after fluid or gas pass through filter media or filter parts, certain-sized particles are filtered or intercepted and stopped onto the surface or filter media or inside filter media (in-depth filters) and clean fluid or gas will pass through filter media or filter part to the downstream. However, It is only known when testing methods or filter standards are known. The two major filter ratings are: Absolute Filter Rating and Nominal Filter Ratings.

To upgrade production machines (weaving looms) and import and use reliable weaving reeds, SHARE has paid much and much more attention to the details of productions for precision woven filter meshes. From the selection of supplied monofilament yarns to warping, drawing in reeds,...heat-setting, SHARE is doing all in house to make sure all the processes are under control.

More than 30 years of producing experience in filtration (filter media), SHARE has combined filter media with injection molding to make molded plastic filters for industrial applications, such as automotive, health care, home appliance, agricultural, food and beverage, chemical processing and many industries requiring filter media and filter parts/components.

In filtration industry, different meshes can be used for different industries, which vary from working temperature to chemical resistance, so we will need to obtain the knowledge of different plastic fibers, so we will know what most suitable filter meshes should be applied. Below is the datasheet of major plastic fibers.

Precision Woven Synthetic Filter Mesh

What is Precision Woven Filter Mesh

It is a synthetic woven filter mesh made of monofilament yarn, specialized in defined and controlled, consistent and repeatable material properties such as mesh opening (pore size), fabric/mesh thickness, tensile strength, dimensional stability, cleanliness and so on.

Ultrasonic welding is an industrial technique whereby high frequency ultrasonic acoustic vibrations are locally applied to workpieces being held together under pressure to creat a solid-state weld. It is commonly used for plastics, however, ultrasonic-welding techniques can also be used to weld mesh, cut mesh into different shapes and weld mesh into tubes.

Stencil Terminology

EOM “Emulsion Over Mesh.” Proper EOM is typically 10 - 25% of

mesh thickness (ft).

Rz Surface roughness of the print side. A stencil with a low Rz

value has a smooth surface (desireable Rz < 5).

As a filtration and separation material provider, SHARE has been striving hard to research and develop new filter material for the industry. In the past, market is limited in supplying small micron rated filter meshes due to technical reasons, such as weaving machines, raw material (yarns/threads), reeds, etc, this market is always occupied by foreign companies, and the cost is very high for the buyers.

In the past year of 2016, SHARE has been closely working with our clients on the needs for the markets worldwide in the industry of dust collection, liquid filtration and screen printing, esp. molded plastic filters.

MESH TO MICRON CONVERSION CHART

Introduction:

Biopsy Bags are made of quality nylon. (Ultrasonic-welding)

Reduce risk of small specimen loss.

Design allows unrestricted fluid movement around tissue.

Bags peel open esaily for quick and easy specimen removal.

Available with or without flap (7mm flap)

Mesh preparation
Abrasion and degreasing to make the mesh more receptive to stencil adhesion.

This variable precedes the discussion of other stencil variables because it is the source of various common stencil-breakdown problems-pinholes, fisheyes or poor stencil adhesion to the mesh-often blamed on the emulsion itself. The screen mesh must be prepared for stencil application by, in some cases, abrading and, in all cases, degreasing.

One of the speciality of SHARE is insert-molding and over-molding plastics with screens/meshes, products made out of insert/over-molding can filter out fluid contaminants and reduce products failure and save time and money for our clients.

Mesh tension: A measure of mesh deflection expressed in terms of Newtons per centimeter (N/cm). 

Tension should be looked at in two ways: the initial stretching and re-tensioning of mesh on your frames, and the ways in which tension interacts with other variables during printing. It's difficult to understand its dynamics without looking at tension relative to off-contact distance and squeegee-blade pressure, so be sure to visit those variables after you've read about this one.

The twofold job of mesh tension is to provide resistance for the blade-to be overcome only at the point where the blade forces mesh-to-substrate contact-and to pull the mesh out of the ink film after the blade passes.

Weave structure

Plain weave versus twill weave.

With plain weave, each thread goes under one perpendicular thread and over the next. With twill weave, a given thread follows an under-one/over-two pattern.

Mesh counts higher than 305 may be woven with plain or twill patterns. Twill mesh typically deposits more ink than the same or even a lower mesh count of plain weave.

Mesh opening

The dimensions of the mesh openings affect stencil support, meter ink flow and contribute to the print's appearance.

The best mesh for screen printing is commonly woven out of monofilament polyester and it functions both as support for the stencil and to meter the amount of ink deposited on the substrate. The dimensions of the mesh count, percentage of open area and thread thickness all contribute to the appearance of the end product. You will find that accurate measurements of these mesh specifications are supplied by the manufacturer. Poor image registration, image elongation and uneven ink deposits can result from the improper selection or preparation of the mesh fabric.

Thread structure

The differences between multi-filament and mono-filament screen-printing mesh.

Here is an easy choice: when faced with multi-filament and monofilament polyester mesh, pick high-quality monofilament. Man-made fibers are made with either multiple or single filaments. Monofilament is a single smooth round fiber used in weaving mesh.