More than 16,500 distributors, manufacturers, building service contractors and in-house cleaning professionals attended ISSA/Interclean-USA at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Oct. 15-18. Attendance was the highest since 1999, when 17,000-plus attended the event.

The show featured more than 30 seminars, including special tracks for in-house cleaning professionals and building service contractors. ISSA/Interclean-USA 2002 was also the debut of the show’s new two-tiered format, designed to give distributors a day with suppliers on the show floor before being joined by all channel segments on the remaining days.