This symposium aims at exchanging information on advanced coating technology, including liquid formation, thin film formation, drying, surface processing, microstructuring, and modeling. Speakers from industry is highly welcome to discuss practical coating problems. In addition the lecture in this symposium consists of 12 min oral presentation and 8 min discussion. For a meaningful discussion, we ask a lecture of those who can discuss.Furthermore, this symposium will be managed together with the poster session so that please understand that the submitted presentation may be transferred to the poster session by the programing committee.