ImagePerf
Patent Licensee: US7212688B2
Create patterns, photos, and images in perforated sheetmetal
ImagePerf is a perforated metal product from Poma. Use your own images, photos, and graphics to create unique designs punched into aluminum, stainless steel, and other metal surfaces.
When you start a project with Poma, we work closely with your team to help detail your design, fabricate the parts, and install the product.
Image Perf Capabilities
Poma’s capabilities for perforated metal include state-of-the-art machine punch and brake systems. The custom punch is set up with a cartridge of rotating dies. This enables punched holes at varying sizes. By varying the size, images appear in the positive or negative spaces of the multitude of hole sizes. This is similar to how a dot matrix printer works to achieve the illusion of a seamless image.
Beyond Perforated Pictures
Perforations aren’t limited to creating imagery. Patterns, moire effects, logos, and graphics can be punched into the metal. Painting capabilities are available through Coastal Powder, providing painted metal surfaces to achieve imagery through colors.
Custom Punch Dies
Add intrigue into your custom perforated projects with custom dies and patterns. We’ll work with you to design and develop your own perf punch to achieve your motif. For instance, a single die can be designed in an unusual shape and then rotated on the turret punch to create imaginative repeating patterns on a metal surface.
Getting Started is Easy
Send us your imagery and we’ll help you develop a custom perforated metal with graphics, photos, drawings, and more.
Custom Perforated Metal Forms
Poma’s in-house team will work with you to develop your perforated imagery across panels and around corners. Quality of the finished enclosure is important for every job.
Benefits of Perforated Metal
Unique Aesthetics
Poma’s custom perforated metal enables rich qualities of artistic expression. Your design sensibilities and those of your clients can be imbued in the metal surface itself, reducing need for custom finishes.
Advanced Shading
Use variable hole shapes to design advanced shading into your projects. Increase your building’s performance in both winter and summer months with double skin systems which filter light.
Enhance Lighting
Whether you’re working with a lighting specialist or simply using perforated metal to filter natural light, our metal perf system provides unique and artistically dappled lighting for your projects.
Acoustical Engineering
Perforated metal can easily be designed to reduce echo in spaces with controlled acoustics. Back your perforated sheets with an acoustic foam to deaden the sound of spaces with acoustic bounce.
Perforated Metal Applications
Product applications include a variety of end uses. Custom perforated metal can be used on facades, scrim walls, ceilings, guardrails, and more. The options are endless:
