LONG BEACH, CALIF.- About 4,000 people visited WPE, according to Rebecca Lerew, show manager, and another 1,200 staffed booths from 252 exhibiting companies. The sponsor was Advanstar Expositions, a unit of Advanstar Communications Inc. of Middleburg Heights, Ohio.
Attendance was greater than normal for a California plastics trade fair, Lerew said.
``It was probably our best-ever West Coast show,'' Lerew said.