Manufacturing Facility

Acran Sound Control's purpose built 2200m2 facility is located in Brisbane's western suburbs, 12km from Brisbane's CBD with excellent access to South East Queensland's major arterial roads. The building includes both production and assembly areas with a 25m clear span serviced by an 8 tonne overhead crane.

Our CNC manufacturing machinery includes a coil slitting, notching and blanking line,  water cutter, computerised press brake, and 135-tonne press brake. These items are supplemented by a traditional array of metal processing equipment.

Acran Sound Control's philosophy has always been to undertake as much manufacturing and assembly work as possible within our facilities to minimise on site erection and assembly time.

Closer supervision of workshop labour ensures superior workmanship at a reduced cost to the client.

The manufacturing process is complemented with state-of-the-art CAD/CAM technology used to provide accurate and consistent parts ready for assembly.  This ensures our acoustic products including acoustic louvres attenuators, acoustic doors and enclosures are all manufactured to meet the strictest of customer requirements.

Our facility also allows sufficient space to manufacture an entire set of ventilation and filtration modules for a Dragline.

The manufacturing facilities include the following integral equipment:

  • Overhead downshop gantry crane with 25 metre span
  • Computerised press brake
  • Automated water jet cutter
  • Computerised iowa coil line
  • Multi gang gauge metal slitter
  • Powder coating facility
  • Acoustic test facility to provide testing to Australian Standards
  • Guillotining
  • Folding
  • Welding
  • Capacity to operate and test up to 150kWr air conditioning equipment for factory acceptance testing and procedures

We welcome existing and future clients to visit our plants by arrangement.


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Acoustic Testing Laboratory

Acran Sound Control's Acoustic Testing laboratory is integrated into our Richlands manufacturing facility. The test facilities primary use is Research & Development of new and existing acoustic products including acoustic louvres, sound attenuators and acoustic doors. The facility ensures that Acran Sound Control staff and customers have complete confidence in the performance of our noise control products.

In addition, the facility is available to companies wishing to conduct acoustic testing of products under controlled conditions. The facility has the ability to conduct both dynamic and static acoustic testing.

The laboratory has been used to provide acoustic data for products including glazing, doors, masonry and other wall systems, road side traffic barriers and air conditioning and mechanical equipment.

Testing Options

The acoustic testing laboratory can be used to conduct tests in accordance with the following standards:

  • Sound Power to AS1217-1985 Part 2
  • Transmission Loss to AS1191-1985
  • Sound Reduction Index (Rw, STC)
  • Insertion Loss to AS1277-1983
  • Absorption Co-efficient to AS1045-1988

Bending Technology



A variety of bending technologies are in use throughout the Acran Sound Control facilities—includng the latest state-of-the-art Amada HRB 1003 press brake.

The HRB CNC press brake leverages industry-leading bending technology and a variety of production-enhancing features that can be customised to suit specific designs.




The Amada also features a patented Automatic Tool Changer (ATC) which enables even the most complex tool setups to be completed quicky. The automatic tool changes also enables variable lot sizes and complex tool layouts, while ensuring efficient and accurate bending results.

To further increase productivity, the Amada bending machine is equipped with the latest innovative AMNC 3i multi-touch screen interface, which enables product designs to be entered, activated, and accurately replicated.

Water Jet Cutter



Acran Sound Control uses a state-of-the-art 30HP high-pressure water cutter with a cutting bed size of 4.2 metres x 3.0 metres.

Water jet cutting involves CNC cutting of materials using a jet of water with an operating pressure up to 4,200 Bar (60,000 PSI). Typically, any material that can be cut by hand with a knife can be cut with water alone. Harder materials such as steel glass ceramics and concrete are cut with a combination of water and abrasive.

As this type of cutting does not impart heat to the cut product, the materials are not limited due to issues with distortion, melting or warping.

Current software enables excellent nesting while our ability to cut multiple sheets of materials facilitates economical cutting.

Typical materials that can be cut include:

  • Steel
  • Stainless steel
  • Insulation
  • Rubber
  • Concrete

The water cutter compliments a wide range of other machinery producing economical and accurate manufacturing and processing within the facility.

Powder Coating



Launched in 2013, Acran Sound Control's powder coating facility accommodates a wide range of sizes and a vast range of equipment and parts. The facility is situated in a separate building dedicated to surface finishing to actively eliminate the contamination issues typically associated with metal manufacturing and grit blasting operations.

The new coat up booth is installed with filtered supply and exhaust air to minimise the ingress of contaminants during the application process. The overall dimensions of the coat up booth are 4.0 metres long x 4.0 metres wide x 3.8 metres high.

Large dual access doors permit large items to be prepared and then coated prior to transfer into the oven.

The oven size is 5.9 metres long x 4.0 metres wide x 3.9 metres high. Overhead gantry style handling equipment allows Acran Sound Control to coat both large and/or heavy items that in turn provides a cost-effective solution for our customers. We have successfully coated equipment in excess of 1,500kg.

To ensure high quality surface coating Acran Sound Control has installed sophisticated oven control and monitoring systems. These systems have proven to enhance the powder coating process resulting in consistent high quality finishes expected in Australian and International markets.