Noise control systems up to 30% lighter, and better performing.
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01 · The rule
Controlling noise has always meant adding material. Buyers keep paying for that weight and space for years after the order is placed. A conventional noise control product has one variable: the material, and how much of it you use. We design with a second one, the topology. Arranging the same raw material differently lets each part do more than its weight would suggest, and every Phononic Vibes product is built on that extra freedom.
02 · What it buys
Most clients spend that extra freedom on weight, which lowers their cost and environmental impact. Where the application calls for it, we spend it on performance, space, transparency, airflow or load.
Up to 30% less weight than a conventional, mass-based part at the same performance, across rail, energy, construction and mobility.
Where a conventional part has reached its limit, we spend the extra freedom on performance instead: more noise reduction at the same weight and size, often at the low frequencies that mass struggles to reach.
The same result in less depth and less length, which gives space back in plant rooms, ducts and vehicles.
Barriers that absorb noise and still let light and the view through, at 72% transparency.
Air keeps moving through the part while the noise is held back, so cooling doesn't have to be redesigned around it.
The part carries structure as well as controlling noise, so there is less to build around it.
Lighter, more compact parts go in quicker, with less supporting structure and fewer trucks to site.
Less raw material goes into each part, so there is less embodied carbon to report. In vehicles and trains, every kilo saved also cuts energy use for as long as the part is in service.
Up to 286 ktCO₂e avoided
Estimate across 2.5 million cars over their lifetime
In series production · Mercedes-Benz
“We're not talking about a proof of concept. We are talking about series production.”
03 · Markets
The first transparent, high-absorbing noise barrier certified for German rail and highway. Italian certification is underway.
Hamburg · MetaWindow along a new road deck
Rail, Germany
Deutsche Bahn built its Silence Innovations programme on our work. MetaWindow was certified for German rail and highway in 2024, after four years of joint development.
Freedom spent on transparency
Mobile, modular barriers for construction sites that change week to week, lighter to ship and faster to put up.
Ancona · MOBI barriers on site
Construction
MOBI mobile barriers deployed on rail and highway construction sites.
Freedom spent on weight and faster installation
Industrial cabins, machine enclosures and quieter machine parts for plants that run all day.
On site · enclosure module lifted into place
Industry, with Matis
Built and installed by Matis since 1979, part of the Phononic Vibes group since 2025.
Freedom spent on space
Silencers, ventilation and enclosures for data centres, substations, compressors and battery storage, where space is short and noise can hold up an approval.
Milan · MetaSilencer wall, data centre roof
Data centres
Equans chose our MetaSilencers because they are more compact, so they install faster in complex data centre buildings.
Freedom spent on space
Electric cars lose the engine noise that used to mask everything else, and every kilo counts against range. Our technology is the first metamaterial in a series-production car, with work in rolling stock, naval and appliances.
MetaDesign firewall insulation in the vehicle
Automotive, with Adler Pelzer
With Mercedes-Benz and the tier-one supplier Adler Pelzer, we built Meta Design: insulation for the firewall between engine bay and cabin, about 28% lighter at the same acoustic performance. It is the first metamaterial in a series-production car.
Freedom spent on weight
Also working with
A2AAmplia InfrastructuresZoeller GroupBugatti04 · Meta-design with us
For OEMs and manufacturers
We start from a measurement on your part and take it through tooling and certification to series production on your assembly line.
05 · Company
We design and manufacture from our own sites, install on site where needed, and are bringing established European manufacturers into one group, so more buyers can get the technology from a name they already trust.
Need barriers, enclosures or cabins, with engineers behind them? Matis is part of the group.
Europe's Environmental Noise Directive and its 2030 zero-pollution targets keep pushing more infrastructure to control noise, and to prove it.