Needle punch nonwoven fabrics are made from various fibrous webs (usually carded webs) in which fibers are bonded together mechanically through fiber entanglement and frictions after fine-needle barbs repeatedly penetrated through the fibrous web. Needle-punched fabrics have characteristic periodicities in their structural architecture that result from the interaction of fibers with the needle barbs. The performance of needle-punched non-woven, including filtration efficiency, pressure drop, operational life, cleaning performance, dust cake formation, and mechanical and chemical resistance, is influenced by its fiber sizes, fabric porosity, thickness, and fabric permeability.