Without the great efforts of machine and equipment manufacturers, to provide the nonwovens industry with innovative solutions in order to improve production efficiency and versatility, we would probably all still be producing carpet underlays. The financial and intellectual investments put into the mechanics of making nonwovens, have made the growth of the nonwovens industry into one of the most dynamic and sophisticated industries a fact of today's life. This category lists nonwovens machinery and auxiliary equipment manufacturers only.