Workshop Acoustic Panels - Sound Absorption for Industrial Spaces
Control noise and improve safety in workshops, training areas, and light industrial environments
Workshops, mechanical rooms, and training areas are often high-noise environments due to machinery, tools, and hard surfaces. This can cause excessive reverberation, distraction, and even health risks. Sontext supplies acoustic panels designed to reduce these risks by absorbing reflected sound and improving overall acoustic performance.
Recommended Acoustic Panel Types
Depending on the construction and use of the workshop, Sontext can provide durable and effective panel solutions, including:
- Sonofonic Fabric Panels: Installed on walls or ceilings, ideal for offices attached to workshops or light-use rooms
- Polyester Panels: Lightweight and impact-resistant, suitable for general workshop spaces
- Perforated Timber or Metal Panels: Suitable for aesthetic zones like training rooms or client-facing areas
Fixing methods can include direct adhesive, Z-clip systems, or frame mounting, depending on the surface and conditions.
Where Workshop Panels Are Used
Where Workshop Panels Are Used
- Vocational training facilities
- Engineering and mechanics workshops
- Maintenance rooms and utility areas
- School or TAFE practical learning spaces
- Light industrial manufacturing areas
Reducing Workshop Noise
Workshops, warehouses, and production facilities are often noisy by nature. The combination of hard surfaces, machinery, and forklift traffic creates excessive reverberation that can impact communication and concentration. Even with personal protective equipment in place, high background noise levels affect everyone—workers and visitors alike.
In many industrial buildings or modern public spaces, ceilings and wall linings are not installed, leaving structural elements, ductwork, and services exposed. In these environments, traditional acoustic solutions may not be suitable. This is where suspended acoustic treatments like SONOBAFFLES are particularly effective. Designed to hang from ceilings, SONOBAFFLES help reduce echo and improve sound clarity without interfering with building services or sightlines.
Acoustic baffles can reduce noise, improve sound quality, and improve a space's visual appeal. Sontext offers baffles in a selection of robust, cleanable fabric finishes, including options suited to high-demand environments such as machine shops, laundries, and industrial production areas. A discreet “blackout” finish is also available where minimal visual impact is preferred.
Unlike traditional acoustic panels, which are typically fixed directly to walls or ceilings, baffles require minimal surface area for installation. They are designed to be suspended vertically or horizontally from the structural ceiling using chains, wires, or mounting tracks, making them ideal for open ceilings or spaces with service obstructions.
Contact Sontext to discuss acoustic panel options for your workshop or industrial training space.
SerenityLite Panels
SerenityLite Panels are a common solution to unwanted background noise in commercial offices. They are lightweight, dimensions are customisable, and panels are available in a huge range of fabric finishes.
Serenity Panels
Serenity Panels offer a more robust solution for high traffic areas, with of the inclusion of an impact resistant membrane under the fabric facing. Sontext can manufacture in thicknesses from 25mm – 100mm, and in special sizes to fit around windows, aircon, lighting, etc.
Sonobaffles
Sonobaffles differ from conventional acoustic ceiling panels in that they are suspended vertically. Where ceiling space allows, the benefit of Sonobaffles is that both sides of the panels are available for sound absorption, rather than single-sided flat-mounted ceiling panels, so the system has potentially twice the sound absorbing area.
Results Of Reducing Noise in Workshops
Note that the choices made on the panel area installed, panel thickness, etc, will influence the sound absorption performance of the system. It is therefore recommended that you consult a Sontext expert to assist you in your choices
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