EcoScreen: Style-Rib

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EcoScreen: Style-Rib product profile

EcoScreen: Style-Rib

Manufacturer
Metl-Span
Product
EcoScreen: Style-Rib
Status
Current
Market
United States
Last verified
September 20, 2026

Overview

EcoScreen Style-Rib is the perforated version of the Style-Rib profile.

EcoScreen Style-Rib is a Metl-Span EcoScreen single-skin perforated wall panel in the Specialty group of the range, used as a metal wall panel screen wall.

Profile

  • Coverage: 36 inches
  • Rib spacing: 7.2 inches on center, uniform
  • Strength: high strength panel
  • Perforation patterns: staggered or reversed

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Related profiles in the range

The other EcoScreen profiles are BR5-36, with 36 inch coverage and ribs at 7.2 inches on center, MR3-36, with three evenly spaced ribs, and Econolap ¾ inch, a more pronounced corrugation.

EcoScreen Style-Rib shares the stainless steel and painted aluminum materials, the perforation options and the fabrication process of the other profiles in the group.

Materials and fabrication

  • Material option 1: 20-gauge stainless steel
  • Material option 2: 0.04 inch painted aluminum
  • Panel type: single-skin perforated wall panel
  • Fabrication: a process specific to Metl-Span

EcoScreen Style-Rib has separate load span tables for the stainless steel and the aluminum versions.

Perforation patterns

EcoScreen Style-Rib has a staggered or a reversed perforation pattern, in a wide variety of options. The perforations in EcoScreen Style-Rib let air circulate and natural light pass through, and add security.

Applications and design basis

Walls built with EcoScreen Style-Rib include commercial and industrial walls, airport and transportation structures, convention centers, recreational buildings, manufacturing facilities, office buildings and equipment buildings. EcoScreen Style-Rib can be installed horizontally or vertically.

The non-perforated Style-Rib is a separate galvanized steel exposed fastener panel with a nominal 1½ inch rib height.

EcoScreen Style-Rib is specified under MasterFormat 2012 Section 07 42 13.19. The load span table for EcoScreen Style-Rib is based on Allowable Stress Design (ASD), and for LRFD loads section 2.4.1 of ASCE 7-10 applies. EcoScreen Style-Rib stays in the Specialty group, apart from the exposed fastener panels with the same profile names.

Specification and design data

  • MasterFormat 2012 section: 07 42 13.19, single-skin wall panel
  • Load span basis: Allowable Stress Design (ASD)
  • LRFD loads: section 2.4.1 of ASCE 7-10 gives the ASD load combinations
  • Installation direction: horizontal or vertical
  • Detail book: published in PDF for Style-Rib