The steadily growing demand for industrial textiles, the new materials used and the new quality requirements have resulted in the development of new, unconventional, high-productivity production techniques in recent decades. All these new techniques feature reduced production cost and short-cut production processes. The advent of synthetic fibres exhibiting characteristics never associated with textile raw materials before, such as high strength, elasticity, uniformity, chemical resistance, microvegetation and humidity, reduced or even complete inflammability, resistance to abrasion and flexing, and many other properties, which have to some extent been programmed into the fibre production process has had a vital influence on the development of industrial textiles. As a result of the synthetic fibres which can be tailored to give the performance characteristics required, the range of industrial textiles has rapidly widened and even extended to application areas never covered by textiles before. Industrial textiles have in fact, recently been introduced as construction materials where the use of textiles was previously inconceivable.