Over 4,500 people attended the Finishing ’99 conference in Cleveland, which was sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and the Association for Finishing Processes of SME.

The instructional conferences included tutorials on powder, liquid, electrocoat coatings and finishing plastics, as well as advanced topics of cost analysis, controls, appearance testing, surface preparation, and environmental and compliant systems. The conference proceedings were worth the attendance at the conferences.