Key Questions to Ask When Ordering 0.5mm Perforated Sheet

How to Get a Perforated Metal Quote

Need a perforated metal quote? If you are researching materials and costs for your projects, here’s how to get a quick and easy quote from Arrow Metal for perforated panels that fit your brief, timescales, and budget.

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We manufacture perforated metal for all types of architecture and design projects, from interior styling and external facade applications to complex, custom panels for private and public sector projects across New South Wales, including education, transport, and leisure.

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Our team is highly experienced in meeting the strict requirements of project tenders and advising perforated metal solutions to achieve key project goals, including sustainability, cost, delivery time, longevity, and performance.

To get started on your quote, here’s a quick overview of some of the basics we need to know and more information about how we can help make your projects successful.

Make a perforated metal quote request: What information do we need?

We create your quote based on the specifics of your project. For an accurate quote, let us know:

• Metal type: We perforate a wide range of metals, including aluminium, brass, steel, stainless steel, and galvanneal. Ask us for advice on the best metal type for your project, as some metals may be more suitable than others based on factors such as strength requirements, environmental considerations, and exposure to corrosive conditions. Please refer to perforated metal specification table.
• Metal thickness: Standard sizes range from the thinnest 0.5mm to 5mm, depending on the metal type. Remember, however, that perforation pattern may influence the thickness, as will strength or weight-bearing requirements – the thicker the panel, the stronger it is.
• Sheet sizes: Our state-of-the-art machinery can punch sheets up to 5m in length, which can be invisibly and seamlessly joined to create extra-large installations, such as for facades, without compromising the pattern. Ask us how!
  
• Pattern type: Our design collection ranges from in-stock standard patterns to made-to-order geometric designs, exclusive profiles, and PixelPerf™ custom-made creations. In-stock sheets are a quick and cost-effective solution for tight timescales, ready for dispatch the next working day. Made-to-order patterns are customised to your project’s exact requirements, adapting the open area percentage and hole size. Whilst PixelPerf™ customisation expertly replicates photographs, images, logos, and drawings in perforated metal, right down to the smallest detail. Browse our latest brochure here for pattern inspiration and explore our projects.
  
• Finish type: We offer an extensive range of finishes from colours and coatings to special weathered effects. Match brand or scheme colours or choose a contrasting shade backed with a colour guarantee. We also work with leading colour manufacturers such as Dulux to make bespoke shades if required.
• Special cutting, folding, or bending: Do the panels need to curve or be cut a certain way? For instance, you may need the panels to fold for window screening, to have unperforated solid margin areas, or to bend as balustrade for curving stairs.
  
• Delivery postcode: All panels are hand-inspected and carefully packaged before being shipped directly to you by our trusted couriers, ready for installation.

We will get back to you with a quote once we have all the details and will contact you for any additional information. If project specification changes, just let us know.

How we can help with projects: Specification advice & expertise

We can advise on all aspects of your quote and project requirements, from the best perforation pattern to the finish and cutting, providing detailed data sheets and free sample packs. Learn more here about our dedicated support and resources for specifiers here.

Contact us on (02)  or   to get a quote for your project or for specification advice and samples.

Browse or download our Perforated Metal Catalogue  or  Project Look Book   for more perforated metal inspiration.

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There are a few ways in which perforated metal can be made. The first way in which it can be made is by taking a flat sheet of metal and feeding it through an industrial rolling machine. The metal sheet then gets punched with needles that puncture out the holes as the rotating cylinders move the sheet along and out the other side.

There is also laser perforation, this consists of a single laser aligned with the metal sheet so that the laser cuts out the holes in the exact places that’s required.

There are a wide range of different sizes and shapes of holes available. The most common shapes are round, square and hexagon shaped holes. The holes can be all the same size or they can be punctured in different sizes on the same sheet, this is often used when creating an image. This application is called ImagePerf which is great for using in architecture or sculpturing.

They also come in different types of metal like aluminium, galvanised steel, mild steel and stainless steel.

ImagePerf is the only application of perforated metal that doesn’t require the holes to be all the same size and shape. Normally perforated steel sheets have holes that are all the same size and shape unless you want to use ImagePerf.

ImagePerf is when the holes sizes are varied and are punched out in a way that’s intended to make an image. Any image is possible and it creates an effective and attractive appearance, it’s an increasingly popular trade in modern architecture.

Aluminium is one of the metal alloys that is great for using to make perforated metal sheets. It’s an ideal material for sheet metal because it’s strong, lightweight, resistant to corrosion, heat and chemical resistant.

Aluminium is weatherproof and doesn’t react with many elements so it’s perfect for using outdoors and it won’t rust. It also has a reflective surface which can give it an attractive appearance.

We supply grade aluminium as we believe it’s the most versatile and beneficial form of aluminium compared to the other grades. This is because it has the highest melting point so it is a good resistor of heat and it also consists of all the other advantages of aluminium.

Plain mild steel is a solid metal with no other combining alloys and is just pure steel apart from a small amount of carbon to make it stronger.

Because mild steel has no added alloys apart from carbon to strengthen it, it can be an extremely versatile building component. It’s also not resistant to corrosion and will rust over time. Mild steel is also a heavy material which can make it difficult to work with however it’s a cost effective metal, it has great welding abilities and you can paint over it.

Are you interested in learning more about 0.5mm Perforated Sheet? Contact us today to secure an expert consultation!