Stone cage is commonly known as gabions which is also called gabion box, gabion basket, sack gabions, gabion mattresses, welded gabion box. This gabion stone cage is an element in the form of blocks made of wire mesh nettings of twisted hexagonal opening or welded square or rectangular openings, which is filled with natural stone for river, hill protection or construction. It is ideal material for flood prevention and flood control in protecting and support seawall, hillside, road bridges, reservoir and other civil engineering in the form of mesh containers filled with stones.
The wire diameter is normally 2-4mm, to strengthen the boxes, the selvage wire is bigger diameter for all the
structure edges. The mesh size can be Hexagonal shape with 6x8cm,5x6cm,8×10-12x15cm etc and Square shape with 5x7cm, 5x10cm, as your request. Gabion boxes can be made in various lengths, widths and heights , for example the popular size 1x1x1M,2x1x1M, 2x1x0.5M, etc,all the units are meters.
According to different requirements, there are the following materials for your choice:
1. Electro Galvanized wire
2. Hot dip galavanized wire
3. Hot dipped galvanized wire with high zinc coated
4. Galfan wire (Aluminum zinc alloy steel wire with 5% or 10% Aluminum content)
Special colors can be customized)
5.PVC coated wire, it can be use the black wire or galvanized wire inside, then outside added PVC / PE coated layer.
The common colors is dark green, grass green, dark gray, light gray, special colors can be customized.
