FSP - Frame&Screen Professionals

***WHAT YOU DONT WANT***
Stopped in to pick up screens for remeshing the other day and ended up helping pull mesh since the shop wasn’t ready.

I’m glad I did. It clearly showed how many screens had let loose from the frame, and none of those were FSP screens.

Out of 140 screens, over 70% had the mesh let loose clean from the glue bond after only a handful of production cycles.
These came from a large screen stretching and remeshing facility.

When stretching is rushed:

• Mesh doesn’t have time to relax and stabilize
• The adhesive doesn’t have time to develop full bond strength before tension is set
• If mesh is taken to tension too quickly without proper relax stages, it will continue to pull after gluing. This puts extra stress on the glue, especially along the short sides because of frame geometry
• This also leads to mesh distortion, which shows up as registration issues on press
• And the result can be mesh letting loose from the frame earlier than expected

At FSP, we use a triple tension method:
tension → relax → tension → relax → final tension and glue

This allows the mesh to stabilize naturally so the bond forms at its true working tension.

Mixed into that stack were screens we stretched.
Only two of ours had popped, and neither let loose from the frame. Both were simply at end-of-life early, not from bond failure.

And to be clear:

Any screen could let loose, including ours, but that happens on a very small scale.
Excessive dip tank time with repeated exposure and not rinsing properly after reclaim can weaken both the mesh and the glue.
Shop chemistry, reclaim workflow, squeegee pressure, and handling all play a role in screen life.

What you don’t want:

• Mesh letting loose from the frame after only a few production cycles. That’s a waste of time and money.

What you do want:

• Mesh fatigue after real production use. That’s normal end-of-life and means the screen did the work and paid for itself.

We focus on screens that last. And when they’re done, they fail the right way, after real work has been completed.

It starts with the screen.
Remesh with the best.

www.remeshfsp.com