As we usher in 2024 we also will face a rare, synchronized cicada outbreak not seen since 1803! Two broods will emerge in late April—the 13-year brood and the 17-year brood. This once-in-a-lifetime event will see cicadas in Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. This alignment of the two broods happens only once every 221 years.

Cicadas are known to emit a high-pitched buzz that can reach up to 100 decibels. Although they are harmless to humans, they will be noisy and they can destroy your trees and shrubs. Female cicadas cut slits in small branches of trees so they can lay their eggs. This causes the branch to die. A single female produces up to 600 eggs. Their life cycle typically lasts about six weeks, so protecting your trees from these broods will be essential.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggests covering trees in mesh or netting with ¼” holes. Industrial Netting has just the material you need. It is a disposable netting that is wrapped completely around the tree or shrub and tied off with zip ties to keep insects from finding an entry path.

Find more details and watch a video here about how our netting can help protect your trees.

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Industrial Netting will be exhibiting at FiltXPO at Navy Pier in Chicago, October 10–12. FiltXPO is North America’s only exhibition and conference dedicated exclusively to filtration and separation. Industrial Netting produces extruded plastic filtration net, mesh screens, and cores in a wide variety of configurations and pore sizes. Our filtration netting is suitable for most any air, liquid, or gas separation and filtration application. Our products are easily fabricated and converted to customized components expediently and economically with our slitting and rewinding or sheeting and die-cutting services. Plastic mesh offers strong yet lightweight parts that have excellent resistance to chemicals and corrosion, are nonconductive, and have good response to temperature changes.

Plastic netting, mesh, screens, and rigid mesh tubes are used in filter cartridges for automotive, HVAC, water purification, hydraulic filtration, fuel filtration, beverage filtration, medical filtration, and food processing applications.

The role of plastic netting in the filtration industry is not singular. The wide variety of filtration and separation systems and media results in a wide range of uses and functions for plastic netting. The major functions of plastic netting in filtration can broadly be categorized as 1) Facilitating the flow of fluids, 2) Supporting, 3) Protecting, 4) Reinforcing, and 5) Filtering. Our products provide multiple solutions to all of these functions, so stop by Booth #604 to see how Industrial Netting can provide a solution to your filtration needs.

It’s just a few short months until the start of the Process Expo tradeshow in Chicago, October 23–25. We hope you can participate in the show and take a few minutes of your time to come and meet us at Booth No. 4220.

Companies looking for solutions to their food processing and packaging needs find the connections they need at Process Expo. Industrial Netting has a wide variety of FDA-compliant mesh products for lining racks in dehydration applications. We would love to meet with you to discuss your specific needs.

The mesh that we provide is durable and reusable. It can be precut to meet your exact installation needs.  Many of our products are available in several colors so you can use this as a way to age your screens during production.

No matter what you are processing, we are confident that Industrial Netting will have the perfect solution for you!