Georgetown LEWP Mesh Welder Debuts Test Sheets

The team at Georgetown has been hard at work getting the Progress Evolution Mesh Welder ready to produce. Test sheets began the week of October 23 and the results have been outstanding. In addition to standard mesh, they can produce Accu Cage and Circle Mesh.

Standard mesh is commodity and building mesh while Accu Cage is more custom from each job to job and is used to reinforce box culverts. You can find circle mesh around manhole bases. The new machine can even do more complex patterns. For example, Georgetown can now produce a diamond-shaped mesh sheet.

With other machines, the diamond-shaped mesh sheet would have been produced as a square shape. Then one to two team members would use a pneumatic cutter (weighing 25-30 pounds) to walk around the sheet, cutting off the edges and the inside cutout, hopefully not cutting anything in error. Then they would move that sheet out of the way and put the next one in place and repeat until done. The test cuts have been flawless.

Congratulations to the team who helped get the machines up and running and congratulations to Georgetown for starting this new downstream business. We’re excited to see it grow.