MEA gratings – a grating for every application

For several decades now, MEA Metal Applications has stood for competence and innovation when it comes to any aspect of gratings: our extensive product range includes not only standard solutions based on standard gratings but also special gratings in many different shapes and sizes – designed and built to meet each customer’s individual requirements. MEA gratings can be used anywhere in industry, logistics and architecture: they are proven in industrial facilities as well as in public or private buildings and in agriculture.

Pressure-locked gratings combine a flush surface and a precise, uniform mesh with a sturdy, torsion-resistant lattice structure. The load bars distribute the load between the supports while the filling bars are force-fitted into the load bars under high pressure, providing stability and ensuring that the load is distributed proportionally.

Flat steel rods are used for industrial or stair gratings and C-beam steel for standard gratings; our load and filling bars can also be manufactured in a slip-resistant design depending on the mesh combination.

Full gratings are manufactured in the same way as pressure-locked gratings. Load and filling bars, of identical height and slotted through to the centre, are force-fitted into one another under high pressure. The admissible load capacity is equivalent to 80 per cent of that of pressure-locked gratings. When determining the load capacity of full gratings, please note that the load bars are the bars where both ends rest on the supporting substructure and which are not slotted on the underside.

Both sides of our full gratings have an identical surface, making them ideal for railing infills, facade cladding, suspended ceilings, partition walls and much more besides.

Electro-welded gratings are manufactured from S 235 JR steel and hot-dip galvanised by total immersion. Filling bars made from twisted square bar steel are force-fitted into full-strength load bars under high pressure and welded in a single operation. The fact that all intersections are fully welded results in a flush grating surface and a sturdy, torsion-resistant lattice structure combining maximum strength and durability with optimal load distribution. Our filling bars can also be manufactured in a slip-resistant design depending on the mesh combination.

MEA gratings manufactured from V2A or V4A stainless steels meet virtually any functional or material specifications demanded by customers. Rounded edges reduce the risk of injury and enable precise, smooth transitions.

MEA can also supply stainless steel gratings with a pickled or electro-polished surface on request. Whereas pickling results in a dull matte appearance, electro-polished gratings have a bright, chrome-like surface.

Complex buildings or structures demand custom solutions. Custom-built products with made-to-measure gratings are the norm for us, as are specific customer requirements regarding slip resistance, light falling in an unusual way or special mesh structures. Irrespective of the material and the method of production, MEA gratings are offered not only with different combinations of mesh and load bars but also in every conceivable size.

We can offer you extensive materials on our products in our download area: From product catalogues and price lists to CAD data, and from technical data sheets to installation and maintenance instructions, you will find important and helpful Information on the light well portfolio.

Gratings made to measure: custom-made gratings individually built in steel or stainless steel by MEA, the manufacturer with many decades of experience.

MEA stainless steel gratings are suited for a wide range of applications owing to their almost total resistance to a large number of substances. They are a very popular choice, for example, in the food processing industry, in breweries or in beverage manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and cosmetics producers also use stainless steel gratings in their plants and mechanical systems, as do all chemical corporations.