Gabion Cage – An Introduction

Gabion cage is also called gabion or gabion basket, it was manufactured by low carbon steel wire and twisted woven. Normally the mesh size of gabion cage is 80mm*60mm, 100mm*80mm and 100mm*120mm, wire thickness normally to be 2.4mm and 2.7mm. There are also a lot of type of surface treatment of gabion such as pre – hot dipped galvanized, galvanized + PVC coated, galvanized + PE coated, galfan wire material. Hot dipped galvanized can be low mass coating (zinc 40g ~ 60g/m2) or high mass coating (zinc min 200g/m2), quality of our galvanization is followed by EN-10244. The gabion cage from Skyhall Fence of PVC coated and PE coated need to reach the Europe standard organic coating EN-10245. Galfan wire is another new kind of material which coating layer is alloy material by Zinc (95%) and Aluminum (5%). Galfan wire material is the most durable material for the surface protection of gabion cage.

Gabion cage is used in a lot of countries for construction or protection of flood. There is no main market for the gabion cage because it was wildly used everywhere. The function of gabion cage can be stopping the flood, mud-rock flow or set on the side of river for river levee. During the process of installation of gabion cage, we need to fill the rock or other things like stone in to the gabion cage to make it very stable. Actually the function of gabion cage is to fix the rocks inside. Some of our clients now start to use gabion cage to be a kind of fence to fencing some residential places, park, etc because of its good decorate function. Fill some different kinds of rock such as granite or limestone can make it colorful and looks more beautiful. If there is any inquiry about Skyhall gabion cage, please contact us anytime for more details.

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