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The main topic of our August newsletter were wire cloth specifications made from flat wires - our LARGO series. In the meantime the installation at the "Leibniz Rechenzentrum" (LRZ) in Garching (close to Munich) has begun.

For the first time flat wire cloth has been used on a large facade. The building itself hosts one of the world's largest computers and is almost completely closed. The walls of the building are painted in different shades of grey creating a chessboard-like design. The wire cloth elements made from LARGO-NOVA 2017 are up to 28 meters long; the "Weaving Ideas" teams has installed these panels as a 2nd skin in front of the building. The mounting system consists of flat tension profiles, clevis screws and pressure springs.

On the one hand - contrary to regular round wire cloth specifications - flat wires create even more uniform light reflection across the surface of the facade. On the other hand depending on the angle of the light rays, reflexions appear either on the vertical round or on the horziontal flat wires.

Despite the use of flat wires the material is still so transparent, that the chessboard design behind the mesh remains visible.

Besides these decorative values the wire cloth fulfills one main technical function: The electromagnetic shielding for the computer!

Information Largo-Nova 2017