While many felts and nonwoven products utilize traditional materials and manufacturing methods, innovations in man made fibers, coatings and treatments permit the development of high technology materials to meet specific performance characteristics.

To take full advantage of these materials often requires the design and development of specialised machinery that can cope with the physical characteristics of the materials themselves and to facilitate their processing and treatment.

Felters are technology experts, not only in understanding and utilizing the features and benefits of specific materials but in designing and building the processing machinery to allow these benefits to be realised into real life products.