
Industrial Acoustics Limited (IAC), Company Profile
Organisation and Background
IAC is the global leader in engineered noise control solutions. Since our formation in 1949, IAC has been at the forefront of the acoustics industry. The IAC and IAC Boët Stopson brands are recognisable throughout the world and are synonymous with quality, high performance and reliability.
IAC employs skilled, qualified and knowledgeable engineers who together have over 1000 years’ experience in the acoustics industry. During the last 60 years, IAC has accumulated a vast amount of data from the laboratory and in the field. We believe that our extensive database, laboratory research establishments and engineering resources are unrivalled within the business sector.
Our customers and global legislative requirements drive us forward to provide noise control solutions that work. IAC designs and manufactures acoustic products that meet the needs of our customers.
IAC delivers noise control solutions for a wide variety of applications in a diverse range of markets throughout the world. We are proud to be the No.1 or No.2 noise control solutions company in all six-market sectors that we serve. IAC offers turnkey acoustic solutions to the following market sectors:
Our customers include some of the world’s best-known brands such as GlaxoSmithKline, Caterpillar, Jaguar, Coca-Cola and Sky. Regardless of the size of your business, we are confident that we have the necessary resources and expertise to provide you with the right acoustic solution.
Engineering and Manufacturing Capabilities
IAC provides local sales and project management support from our facilities in nine countries around the world. Our manufacturing plants in Australia, China, Denmark, France, UK and the USA as well as our partners in 14 other countries, means that we are ideally placed to serve our customers’ needs locally.
IAC has a large network of technical sales engineers, agents and distributors throughout the world, several of whom manufacture IAC products under license.
IAC's global headquarters are located in Winchester, UK, approximately 100km (70 miles) from London.
Quality
IAC is totally committed to quality. We have ISO 9001-2008 accreditation across the entire Group. In the UK, we are ISO 14001 accredited and the rest of the Group are working towards ISO 14001 accreditation. This means that you can be confident that we will deliver and install your product to the highest possible standard.
Diverse Markets
At IAC, we have structured our business to reflect the needs of each of our market sectors. Within each business area, we have the right resources to deliver engineered acoustic solutions that satisfy that market.
Energy
IAC designs and manufactures custom-engineered products that offer noise control solutions in the energy and power market. Our products include:
- Sound-reducing enclosures for large diesel and gas turbine Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and packagers.
- Silencers for gas turbine intake and exhaust systems associated with power generation, marine propulsion and gas pumping applications.
- Heavy-duty and high-temperature silencers for offshore platforms, pipelines, compressors and pressure relief valves.
- Mufflers for diesel engines and compressors used in land-based, mining, marine and transportation applications.
Contact Gordon David on 01206 878208 and find out how we can help you to reduce and control unwanted noise or learn more about power applications from IAC.
Industrial Engineering and Transportation
Since our formation, IAC has built an excellent global reputation for the design and manufacture of product testing and development facilities, modular soundproof rooms, anechoic chambers, and reverberation rooms. Some of the leading automotive/engine manufacturers around the world are using IAC anechoic chambers or reverberation rooms. In addition, some of the top universities and hospitals prefer IAC designed facilities for scientific and medical research.
IAC also designs and manufactures silencers and acoustic enclosures that provide noise reduction for manufacturing and process industries. Throughout the world, our rugged noise barriers protect communities from noise pollution emanating from factories, roads and railways.
Contact our Industrial Team to find out more about our extensive range of acoustic products.
Commercial Construction
IAC designs and installs acoustic products for use in commercial buildings throughout the world. Our product range includes:
- Conic flow silencers and quiet flow plenums to control noise from air conditioning systems.
Quiet Vent silencers solve a common problem in air handling – the passage of noise from one space to another through vents provided for air passage.
- Acoustic louvers combat environmental noise problems in mixed and residential areas.
- Vibration isolators are favourites of specifiers and architects for roof-mounted plant and mechanical equipment rooms.
- Air handling units (AHUs) condition and circulate air as part of a Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) system.
- Acoustic walls and acoustic doors provide noise reduction in convention centres, hotels and offices.
Contact our Building Services team for a free no obligation discussion about your requirements.
Healthcare
IAC designs and installs audiology rooms in hospitals and clinics throughout the world. Our audiology rooms provide clinicians and consultants with the ideal environment in which to conduct audiological examination, psycho-physiological examination and research. IAC also designs and manufactures acoustic booths, auscultation units, mini-booth audiometric testing rooms, multi-room speech and hearing complexes that deliver excellent patient services.
Contact our Architectural Team for a free no obligation discussion about your healthcare requirements.
Aerospace
IAC Aviation is a leading global business within the IAC group of companies. IAC Aviation designs, manufactures and installs aero-engine test facilities and noise suppression systems both for the military and civil aviation sectors worldwide.
IAC Aviation specialises in the construction of installed and uninstalled test facilities including hush houses and tailored support packages. These test facilities are suitable for a wide range of fixed and rotary wing aircraft engines.
IAC also offers refurbishment services and technical support for aero-engine test cels. Our airport products also include jet wake barriers/blast deflectors, ground run up pens/enclosures, head of stand cabins, acoustic barriers/walls and passenger boarding bridge acoustic protection and ventilation.
Contact our Aviation Team to find out more about IAC aero-engine test facilities, airport products and services.
Education and Media
IAC designs and manufactures a wide range of products that are in use within the Education and Media market sector.
IAC designs, manufactures and installs soundproof study rooms, music practice rooms and recording studios in schools and universities throughout the world. IAC supplies many of the world’s best broadcasters with modular radio studios, TV studios and video post-production and recording facilities.
Contact our Architectural Team for a free no obligation discussion about your healthcare requirements.
Engineering Research and Development
Engineering research and development enables IAC to design and develop new products that offer high acoustic performance to our customers.
IAC continues to develop new products and is responsible for bringing many product firsts to the market, including the green duct silencer range of products.
We have two Acoustic Research Centres: a Simulation and Engineering Facility in Lille, France and our Aero Acoustic Laboratory in New York. These facilities are equipped with some of the most modern and sophisticated equipment available to the acoustics industry.
Our standing in the sector
IAC sponsors, sustains membership of, and/or holds approvals with, all the relevant industry organisations including UK Institute of Acoustics; Acoustical Society of America; National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Programs; Institute of Noise Control Engineers; American Academy of Audiologists; Société Française d'Acoustique; Underwriters Laboratories Inc.; and the Australian Acoustical Society.
IAC is a Sponsor
member of the following professional bodies:

UK Institute
of Acoustics
IAC is also a member of the following Associations:
Registered Office
IAC House, Moorside Road, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 7US. Registered in England No: 606877
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