profilepanels.comby Northstone Dynamics LLC
Architectural metal
Perforated panels
Perforated wall & roof systems

Light, air, shadow & privacy — punched into metal.

Any Profile Panels profile, perforated to your design. A single skin that shades, screens, breathes, quiets, and transforms how a building reads in the light.

One surface, many jobs

What perforation does

The same panel solves several problems at once — that's why architects reach for it. Tune the open area and the panel shifts from solid-with-texture to a luminous veil.

Pattern explorer

See it before you spec it

Pick a pattern and a finish — rendered live, to true relative scale.

Bright Silver
Hole
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Center spacing
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Open area
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Pattern
Round · staggered

Standard patterns

Available perforated on

7.2, Vintage, 7/8″, U-Panel, STL66 / -R, IronRib, MegaBox, DeepRib24, BigBox24 — and custom profiles on request.
Material guidance

Why we build perforated panels in aluminum

For exterior perforated work, we recommend aluminum — and we'll tell you exactly why, not just sell you steel.

  • 01Perforating exposes thousands of raw edges

    Every hole is a cut edge. On steel and Galvalume, those bare edges and hole walls have no coating — in exterior or wet conditions they rust. Industry guidance even limits perforated Galvalume to interior use. Aluminum self-passivates, so its cut edges never rust.

  • 02Lighter — by roughly two-thirds

    Perforated screen walls are often large and stood off the building. Aluminum weighs about a third of steel, easing the substructure, attachment, and field handling on big elevations.

  • 03Finish built to live outdoors

    Aluminum takes Kynar 500® / PVDF coatings beautifully for decades of color and gloss retention — exactly what a permanent, fully-exposed feature wall needs.

  • 04Clean, consistent perforation

    Aluminum punches cleanly at .032–.050, holding crisp holes and flat sheets without the edge burr and coating damage that plague perforated steel.

Our recommendation

Aluminum for exterior. Steel for interior.

If the perforated panel is outside or anywhere it can get wet, specify aluminum. We reserve perforated steel and Galvalume for interior features where rust isn't a risk — and we'll say so up front.

Exterior screens & sunshadesAluminum .032–.050
Interior features onlySteel / Galvalume
FinishKynar 500® / Fluropon®
Beyond the standard

Custom & graphic perforation

When a standard open area isn't the statement, we perforate to your design.

Variable open areas that fade from solid to sky. Image-mapped patterns that resolve into a photograph at distance. Logos, text, and bespoke hole geometries. Dual-density panels that screen the sun on one edge and frame a view on the other.

Gradient densityImage-mappedLogo / text Variable open areaCustom hole shapesDual-function panels

Send us a concept or an image — we'll translate it into a perforation map and a sample.

Let's perforate something.

Tell us the job — shade, screen, airflow, or pure effect — and we'll recommend a pattern, a material, and send a sample.

Request a sample →