Clever Use of Acoustic Wall Panel for a More Comfortable Living Space

Acoustic wall panel is widely used in the construction industry as an important building material. They absorb ambient noise and reduce echoes, creating a more comfortable environment.Unlike sound insulation panel, which features high density and excellent sealing performance, acoustic wall panel is full of pores. These grooves, holes, and fiber gaps are the key to their sound-purifying effect.Below, we will introduce their core materials, sound absorption principles, common application scenarios, and practical tips for using acoustic wall panel in home decoration to improve living comfort, helping you fully understand the value and uses of this versatile material.

1.What Materials Are Acoustic Wall Panel Made Of?

Currently, acoustic wall panel available on the market is mainly divided into the following four categories based on their materials:

（1）Wooden Acoustic Panels

Manufactured based on acoustic principles, these panels consist of a decorative surface, core material, and sound-absorbing felt. They are generally classified into grooved wooden acoustic panels and perforated wooden acoustic panels.

（2）Mineral Wool Acoustic Panels

These are finished knurled mineral wool boards with holes of varying depths, shapes, and sizes. They offer strong decorative effects.

（3）Fabric-wrapped Acoustic Panels

The core material is centrifugal glass wool, a long-standing and widely used acoustic material.

（4）Polyester Fiber Acoustic Panels

Made from polyester fiber, these panels provide multiple advantages including sound absorption, environmental friendliness, flame retardancy, heat insulation, moisture resistance, mildew resistance, easy dust removal, easy cutting, pattern matching, simple installation, good stability, strong impact resistance, high independence, and cost-effectiveness. A wide range of colors is also available.

If you are interested in purchasing these types of acoustic wall panel, please contact the SUMEC Building Material team. We offer a variety of types and colors with guaranteed quality.

2.Where Can Acoustic Wall Panel Be Used?

The greatest function of acoustic wall panel lies in their sound control ability, so they are widely used in commercial and public spaces.In commercial spaces, we aim to avoid noise interference during work or business conversations, and sometimes protect speech privacy. That is why acoustic panels are commonly used in offices, conference rooms and other similar areas.

In public spaces such as libraries and schools, acoustic panels are applied to improve speech clarity. Nowadays, an increasing number of hospitals also use such products to create a quiet environment for patients’ recovery.

3.How to Choose Acoustic Wall Panel?

（1）Check for authoritative test reports

Theoretically, any material has certain sound insulation properties. As a result, many ordinary materials on the market are labeled as acoustic panels by manufacturers, which can easily mislead consumers.One of the most important principles for choosing acoustic panels is to check whether the product has authoritative test reports. At present, the most authoritative institutions for building acoustics testing in China include the Architectural Acoustics Research Institutes of Tsinghua University and Tongji University.

If an acoustic wall panel is advertised to have excellent sound insulation performance but no official test report is provided, consumers must be cautious.In addition, consumers should verify whether the acoustic panels sold by the manufacturer are the same product as the samples submitted for testing. If the tested samples are thicker, heavier, made of different materials, or specially treated, while the actual products for sale are different, the sold products will obviously not meet the sound insulation values stated in the test report.

In this regard, consumers should check the manufacturer’s qualifications, credibility and reputation to avoid being deceived.

（2）Check Whether the Acoustic Panels Are Easy to Install

To achieve excellent sound insulation effects, the installation method of acoustic panels must be very simple; otherwise, it is difficult to obtain ideal sound insulation results.Professional acoustic engineers all know that a wall system that achieves X dB of sound insulation in laboratory tests can often only achieve X－2 dB or even lower in actual construction.There are two main reasons why the sound insulation performance in actual projects is lower than the laboratory test value:

Flanking transmission in real construction sites.Poorer installation quality of wall panels on site compared with the professional installation in the laboratory.

Therefore, acoustic panels must be easy to install. Otherwise, installation errors will inevitably occur on site, resulting in the wall’s sound insulation performance failing to meet the target.

（3）Check the Thickness and Weight of Acoustic Panels

Some ordinary acoustic panels on the market rely on increased thickness and weight to improve sound insulation. Although this method can enhance performance to a certain extent, it also has many drawbacks.Our acoustic panels are advanced sound-insulation materials based on an innovative sound insulation principle. Their significantly improved sound insulation performance is not achieved by increasing weight or thickness. In fact, the panels are only 18 mm thick (or even thinner). A light-gauge steel keel wall integrated with these panels can achieve a sound insulation rating of 53 dB, and with an appropriate wall assembly system, the sound insulation effect can reach up to 80 dB.

Among all acoustic panels of the same thickness and weight on the market, this product not only delivers the best sound insulation performance, but also outperforms others by many times.

（4）Check the Durability of Sound Insulation Performance

Some acoustic wall panels on the market are made by inserting a rubber layer, vibration-damping material, or sound-insulating felt between two boards. While this method can improve sound insulation to a certain extent in the short term, the performance will gradually degrade over time.

As we all know, materials such as rubber will slowly age in the air, becoming hard and losing elasticity, which leads to a continuous decline in sound insulation effect. On the other hand, this structure also results in a very high project cost.Our acoustic panels adopt a special process to composite a new type of polymer material between two boards, whose performance remains unchanged for life. The sound insulation effect can be maintained for at least 50 years without degradation.