General Terms to Identify Stainless Steel Wire Mesh:

Mesh: Number of openings for linear count, measures of center the center of the parallel wires.  Most wire mesh fabric manufacturers adopt the English count, 25,40 mm, that is per inch, as standard.

The classifications of mesh opening in German, French and metric, respectively based in the number of openings in 26,16 mm, 27,77 mm and 10,00 mm.

Wire Diameters: It is given in numbers BWG (Birminghan Wire Gauge) for being the fieira most used for the manufacturers of wire mesh, to make sure if the wire diameter is measured correctly.