Welded mesh gabions offer the same flexibility as twisted mesh gabions with greater strength. They are produced from metallic coated welded wire fabric, and metallic coated wire for spiral binders, lacing wire, and stiffeners used to assemble the product. The metallic coated fabric may be polyvinyl chloride (PVC) coated after fabrication. The spiral binders, lacing wire, and stiffeners may be polyvinyl chloride (PVC) coated after metallic coating. Polyvinyl chloride hereinafter will be designed as PVC.