Oscar Acoustics
Founded in 1978 by John Hancock our current non-executive chairman, Oscar Acoustics have built an enviable reputation for the reliability, quality and performance of both its acoustic products and staff. We are a 41-year-old family business with strong core values that has built its company relationships through honesty and integrity. We take pride in the clients we work with and exceeding their expectations time and time again.
Oscar Acoustics serve Great Britain providing architectural acoustic finishes for buildings across many different sectors and industries, advocating the health and wellbeing of all those who enter them. With our extensive range of recycled, seamless, acoustic, decorative finishes we enable designers to create beautiful, calm and inviting, modern spaces that sound as good as they look.
Introducing architectural acoustic finishes to Great Britain
By the late 1980s Oscars had doubled its manufacturing capacity and diversified even further into more acoustic products and services and in 1992 Oscar Acoustics became the new trading name of Oscar Engineering Ltd.
In 1998 John Hancock visited Amsterdam at the invitation of the MD of Asona BV to view installations of SonaSpray acoustic decorative finishes and was so impressed that he then visited International Cellulose Corporation (ICC) the manufacturers of the SonaSpray range in Houston, Texas and agreed a licence for Great Britain. The SonaSpray range entered the UK market via Oscar Acoustics over 21 years ago at a time when the alternatives were tiled ceilings and basic acoustic panels. Gradually, Oscars portfolio expanded from village halls and churches to large schools, international film studios and attractions including the London Millenium Dome.
The ranges versatility began to gain attention across Great Britain as products that could be applied onto almost any substrate configuration and to meet any acoustic requirement. With these acoustic decorative finishes following the lines of whatever is beneath them, architects could for the first time allow their imaginations to run wild, creating beautiful flowing spaces that are pleasurable environments in which to spend time. No longer would architects have to compromise on design in order to achieve acoustic perfection. As the world has become more environmentally aware, the recycled paper based SonaSpray range was perfectly placed to fulfil the requirements of virtually any sustainability system or accreditation.
In 2005 Ben Hancock joined the company and worked within our specialist in-house spray teams for several years, then onto project management and in 2017 was made a Director.
