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Everybody daydreams about being their own boss, creating their own schedule and taking vacations whenever they want. NAPCO can help you strengthen your skills so you can start and/or expand your own refinishing business and become your own boss, creating the life you’ve always wanted.

Effective November 2019, all methylene chloride products for consumer paint and coating removal were officially banned from the shelves. This is an initiative that NAPCO supports as the safety of refinishers and homeowners continue to remain one of our top priorities. NAPCO offers a range of eco-friendly, methylene chloride free products, including the On The Spot Gun Cleaner, a multi-purpose surface and gun cleaner, offering refinishers a safer alternative.

This holiday season, we wanted to share the gift of training! We’re excited to release our 2020 class schedule of instruction that provides intensive, hands-on bathroom and kitchen refinishing training. Our popular monthly classes will share the skills to potentially increase your income this year by becoming a certified refinisher.

NAPCO’s Trade-Up program provide refinishers with the opportunity to replace any and all bathroom and kitchen refinishing competitor products, including cleaners, primers, coatings and additives, with a one-for-one free product exchange for NAPCO’s refinishing supplies.

Last month, we were lucky enough to attend the National Association for Business Resources luncheon in the Loop and were even more fortunate to be one of the winners of “Chicago’s 2019 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®”! Wow. We’re honored. And we’d add that while the company was on the receiving end of the award, we want to take the opportunity to applaud and thank our employees, who are most definitely the best and brightest. 

Knowing which product you need will help save you time and money while on the job. Since we released Piranha Prep last year, there have been some questions as to when to use Piranha Prep versus our long-standing PolyClean Tub & Tile Cleaner. See our recommendations for when to use each.

We are proud to say NAPCO has been honored as one of the top Paint and Coatings Manufacturers for 2019 by PCI Mag. This list, compiled annually, includes the top 10 global and top 25 North American paint and coating manufacturers.

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of NAPCO’s debut in the refinishing industry, and we’re happy to report that after four decades things are looking brighter than ever! We’ve certainly changed quite a bit over the years, but our dedication to our professional refinishers remains the same. In fact, it is this dedication that has driven us to make many impactful changes to our business over the years.

The NAPCO product development team is thrilled to announce the launch of three new waterborne products for our Kitchen Renew product line. Last year we made the decision to expand from bathtub and tile to also include kitchen countertop and cabinet refinishing. Since then, the program has been a continued success and we knew we would need to grow our range of products to meet customer demands.

To better understand the concerns of our customers, NAPCO CEO, Steve Coven, went out into the field to speak directly with kitchen refinishers. Utilizing this feedback along with online comments, we’ve compiled your top kitchen refinishing concerns for Steve to respond to directly.