Service.
Is Our By-Word.
Howard Wire Cloth Co. has been the Bay Area's source for industrial wire mesh.
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You, our customers, are our most valuable asset.
We at Howard Wire Cloth Co. realize the importance of prompt service and quality products in meeting your requirements. Since 1938, Howard Wire Cloth Co. has emphasized this service from our Bay Area facilities.
With our ever-expanding product lines, we are proud to offer complete screening services — including a wide range of woven and welded screen, perforated metal, and expanded metal products. In addition, we offer manufacturing facilities for your custom requirements, including slitting, stamping, and fabrication.
Today, that means more than 1,400 stock products in our Hayward warehouse — 304 stainless, 316 stainless, plain steel, copper, aluminum, brass — ready to ship. It means a real person who picks up the phone. And it means we still cut to size, the way we always have.
The Hands Behind Every Order.
Service is our by-word.
Behind every order is the same crew that's been here for years — the people who walk the racks, pull the rolls, and cut it to size so you get exactly what you need.
They know the mesh by feel, they'll talk through the tricky jobs, and they take it personally when a job has to be right. Day in and day out, they're why a call to Howard Wire still gets you a real person with a real answer.
The Crew · Hayward, CA
What We Sell
Every form, alloy, and gauge is fabricated and stocked in-house, then quoted to your exact spec. Nothing here carries a shelf price — it's built for your job.
Woven
Wire Cloth
Precision screening for filtration, sieving, and separation. Multiple weaves, wire diameters, and materials.
Welded
Wire Mesh
Consistent strength and uniform openings for fencing, guarding, partitions, and structural panels.
Expanded
Metal
Strong, versatile, cost-effective. Ideal for walkways, vents, grilles, security panels, and architectural use.
Perforated
Metal
Functional and decorative panels for filtration, acoustics, ventilation, and design. Multiple hole patterns.
Beyond Stock.
We Cut, Form, Fabricate.
For anything not on the shelf, our facilities turn raw material into the part you need. Bring a sample, a drawing, or a spec — we'll quote it.
Slitting
Strip widths cut to your exact requirement from full-width stock. Coils, sheets, or single pieces — straight, clean edges, consistent dimensions.
Stamping
Custom shapes, holes, and patterns punched to your spec. Discs, rectangles, custom geometries — dies built for production runs of any size.
Fabrication
Baskets, frames, panels, and assemblies. Bring a drawing or a sample. We prefer working from a physical sample for the most accurate quotation.
How We've Always Done Business.
— and how we still do business today.
Products
Sourced for strength, durability, and long-term performance. Every roll, every panel, every cut.
Service
A real person picks up the phone. Stock items ship the same week. Custom orders move through our floor without bureaucracy.
Prices
Honest pricing with no surprise fees. We've offered remnants and partial sheets to save customers money since long before 'value engineering' was a phrase.
In Their Words
From real customers
A great place! Instead of buying 2 sheets of metal racks, we were offered a remnant that cut our price for the project in half. Can't recommend Howard Wire Cloth Company highly enough!
Our company has been buying screen from them for about 8 years, and any time there's a problem they've always stepped up and fixed it. Top-quality products, made to spec, fantastic service!
I wanted some wire mesh for my deck but wasn't sure what I'd like. The friendly staff went over several options and even sent me samples. I went with a welded wire mesh in black vinyl coating — couldn't be happier. Everything was so easy. Definitely give them a call for your wire mesh needs.
Happy to see a supply chain that knows their business — good customer service, helpful staff, and good prices. Please stay in business!
We needed help with our railings and I had a tough time finding anyone to really help. I got on the phone with Laura and things fell into place perfectly — so glad to have found them!
Come By The Warehouse.
We're a real warehouse with real people. Bring a sample, a question, or just walk through and see what we stock. Open Monday through Friday from our Hayward, California location.
Hayward, CA 94545
(800) 969-3559 toll-free
Fax (510) 786-4167
About Meshy
That's Meshy — our mascot, made of the same welded wire we sell. He shows up around the site to point you toward help, the catalog, or the quote line. He doesn't pick up the phone, but the people at (510) 887-8787 do.