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If you ever want to see how worldly the Upstate is, check out the Greenville Area Development Corporation.’s Excel spreadsheet that lists more than 1,000 manufacturers here. From around the world and around the corner, they make a mind-boggling array of things from cakes to complex compounds.

Everyone knows the area’s marquee manufacturers, so the Upstate Business Journal looked at some lesser-known companies that make things we can’t live without: food, pharmaceuticals, and advanced materials, such as the high-tech paint that coats airplanes.

The companies we talked to all reported growth, despite news reports of a manufacturing decline nationwide. Here’s a roundup of how they’re making it in the Upstate.

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Although the R-word’s now appearing in headlines about U.S. manufacturing, someone evidently forgot to share the news with the Upstate, where factories hum right along, appearing ready for what’s coming — if anyone can guess what that is.

On Sept. 17, the same day that MarketWatch proclaimed “U.S. manufacturing remains in a recession due to weakness in the global economy and Trump’s trade war with China,” John Lummus, president and CEO of the Upstate SC Alliance, told the Upstate Business Journal that while manufacturers here are linked to the world’s supply chain, “In the event of a global slowdown, our area will likely see effects, though they may not be as deeply felt here as in other areas of the country.”

Numbers can be slippery — even in the same news story. For instance, MarketWatch’s report of a manufacturing “recession” also noted that U.S. production rose 0.5% in August after a 0.4% drop in July.

Likewise, the Richmond Fed’s September “Snapshot” showed manufacturing in South Carolina posting the largest monthly gains among 11 labor-market sectors, adding 1,900 jobs for a 0.7% increase.

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“Many global factors are contributing to mixed economic signals,” Lummus says, also citing tariffs and China’s slowdown, as well as uncertainties over Brexit and the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Lummus says project announcements — one growth indicator — slowed in the first half of 2019, while Mark Farris, CEO and president of the Greenville Area Development Corp., says foreign direct investment, which normally accounts for half of GADC’s projects, fell about 20%.

“And for the first time in GADC history,” Farris adds, “we announced more office projects than manufacturing in 2018. While manufacturing still dominates the project count, I think this signals an evolution in our economy and towards more industry diversification.”

Think tech: Lummus points out that it took 25 people in 1980 to manufacture $1 million worth of goods, but only five people in 2018.

“Some see automation and robotics as a bad thing, though if Upstate companies embrace innovation, it can really strengthen their output while increasing the caliber of associated career opportunities,” he says.

Farris adds: “Manufacturing headcounts will continue to decline, especially when looking longer term. Profitable and globally competitive companies will continue with technology upgrades, making many jobs redundant while simultaneously increasing productivity.”

With the Greenville-Anderson MSA unemployment rate at 2.9% — a full percentage point lower than the nation’s in September, the Richmond Fed says — Lummus also points out the Upstate’s population from 2013 to 2018 outpaced the nation.

“Population change, number of jobs available, the rise of jobs at young firms, and the gross regional product — I’m hopeful that these factors will temper the effects of a slowdown.”

Although Farris notes that “many of the companies we work with, both new and existing, are frustrated primarily with labor availability, especially for certain technical-skill sets,” he adds, “We have been growing so fast for so long, any slowdown probably feels more dramatic, although there is a definite deceleration, especially when compared to the past eight years.”

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Food manufacturers feed on Upstate’s hunger for growth Dewey Armstrong wants to know when the sign’s going up on the massive plant that, a few weeks before Thanksgiving, will start churning out 24 decorated cakes per minute.

“Where’s my sign!” Armstrong, the CEO of Simpsonville-based Muffin Mam, yells through playful chiding during a mid-September tour of the 100,000-square-foot facility that’s rising like one ginormous baked product on a Laurens County tract.

I see the food business in the Upstate continuing to grow faster than the overall marketplace.”

-Dewey Armstrong, CEO of Muffin Mam Amid the construction flurry, dust puffs around the 125 construction workers and heavy equipment.

Armstong’s assured the sign’s going up soon, certainly before the November opening. By then, too, the 20,000-square-foot freezer will be brought down to minus-15 degrees.

Meantime, Armstrong sees plenty of signs showing continued growth for Upstate food manufacturers.

“The more people that come in, the more food that’s going to be sold,” he says, stating

something of the obvious to a visitor trailing him in his excitement and trying to keep up alongside Katie Key, marketing and communications director. “I see the food business in the Upstate continuing to grow faster than the overall marketplace.”

He mentions having just read a news report about three subdivisions coming soon to the area. Earlier that day, the papers said an 848home subdivision, by itself, would spike nearby Mauldin’s population by 8% when it opens after 2020.

All those consumers live a halfhour away from the $20 million plant that Greenville’s Azalea Capital built to grow the company, Armstrong says, adding that the equity owners that bought Muffin Mam in July 2018 are planning fivefold growth.

Muffin Mam celebrates its 30th year since Stephanie Croley opened her cafe in Greenville in 1990 — Croley died in 2014 — and now sells to what Armstrong calls the nation’s largest club-store chain and second-largest group of grocery stores.

Like the other sectors showcased here, the Upstate’s 150-plus food manufacturing companies generally don’t grab headlines. That’s fine with Armstrong, whose company makes frozen cakes, crème cakes, pound cakes, angel food cakes, and more — most under private label.

“We don’t need a fancy BMW emblem on everything we make,” he says, adding that of the 20 sites he considered, including at least one in Florida, he chose Laurens County specifically to be away from the corridor of manufacturing behemoths.

“I didn’t want to compete in that corridor for teammates,” he says of the 116 employees who will earn $13 to $15 per hour.

Labor’s what keeps Chancey Lindsey-Peake from expanding her tiny company.

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Her Banana Manna operates at the other end of the spectrum among the Upstate’s mega-manufacturers, such as Keurig Green Mountain, which announced in May its $350 million expansion in Moore, a year after Ace Bakery’s $31.9 million investment in Gaffney.

Lindsey-Peake opened 15 years ago and bakes as many as 200 2-by4-by-6-inch loaves a day: “Chocolate banana bread, blueberry banana bread, cranberry banana bread, banana banana bread, banana nut bread,” she says.

She and her husband, Dennis, bake those and other products from their small storefront bakery themselves because with labor costs, “I had to humbly let my help go,” she says.

Still, she says she sees food manufacturers adding to a homemade recipe of steady growth.

Asked whether she’s considering expanding, she says she’s considering it, but for now, she’s happy to sell her goods to three Lowes Foods locations, as well as in Port City Java downtown and at area farmers markets.

Sounding a bit like Armstrong, she says, “When the economy slacked, Banana Manna still did well because, when I’m out at an event, I let people sample, and if you can get it in their mouths and let them taste it, they will buy.”

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has products in over 25 MILLION homes throughout North America Source: Upstate SC Alliance.

When it comes to manufacturing, most people know us for automotive, tires and aviation. We’re becoming bigger players, and I’m glad to see that diversification in manufacturing because we’re not just the place where cars are made.”

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Advanced materials make material advances in Upstate manufacturing Carlos Rhys’s plant produces about 50,000 gallons of paint a year. This ain’t just any paint. This stuff ’s big league, from the “secret sauce” on Louisville Slugger’s MLB Prime wood bat—as Baseball America calls it—to coatings for airplanes and Army tanks.

Rhys, 72, could be considered among the patriarchs of advanced manufacturers in Greenville, having moved to Greenville in 1990 and starting or leading—or both— three companies, the last of which, Axon, he sold to Milwaukee-based Hentzen Coatings Inc. He remains a consultant at Hentzen, which is part of an ecosystem of companies that produce “engineered materials,” as the Upstate SC Alliance refers to some 880 businesses that employ more than 40,000 brainiacs—80 percent higher than the national average. In the last five years, 42 such companies announced new locations here, pouring nearly $4 billion in capital investment, the Alliance says.

“Initially, I thought, ‘What have I done?’”

Rhys, a California native, recalls when he arrived here with a physics degree from Andrews University in Michigan.

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THE UPSTATE’S INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CONCENTRATION IS 2.8 TIMES NATIONAL AVERAGE couldn’t move me away from Greenville now because of the changes here. In 1990, there was nothing here.”

He’s right, the Hyatt Regency had opened eight years before and Main Street was still lined with shuttered storefronts. By then, Michelin, itself a player in advanced materials, was heralding the end of textiles’ dominance in Greenville.

Also here was Tom Quantrille, who arrived in 1986. Now 58, he’s President and CEO of Haydale Technologies Inc., the North American arm of U.K.-based Haydale Graphene Industries.

Don’t try to understand what Haydale makes. The Chinese can’t figure it out; even they couldn’t crack Haydale’s proprietary processes for materials like silicon carbide microfiber, which is a “very high modulus rigid rod nanotube.” No idea what that means, but Quantrille says it’s used in ultra-high-performance cutting tools.

“We had six Chinese companies try to copy us and they all have failed,” he says of products whose strength is second only to a diamond’s.

That’s the thing about advanced materials—they’re … advanced.

“Manufacturing has moved from what I would say is low-skill, lowcost into high-skill, high-tech,” he says, “but that means you’re going to run into a labor workforce problem, finding manufacturing staff and specialists who are capable of doing the work.”

SOUTH CAROLINA HAS THE 3RD LOWEST INDUSTRIAL POWER COST ON THE EAST COAST While he calls the area fantastic—his word—for this kind of manufacturing, he says “It’s getting so high-tech that people need to have some better education to even run these machines.”

Talk about automation. Haydale’s two buildings, totaling 70,000 square feet, house only 15 employees who make products so, well, incomprehensible, it’s why the sector doesn’t garner the same attention as, say, that huge German auto plant just 3.5 miles down the road.

Quantrille mentions a major defense contractor, which buys Haydale’s ability to custom cut ceramic parts using lasers that will “allow them to do a whole lot more things, but that you’ll never see in the press.

“I would call it a quiet industry, where there’s a lot of stuff going on, but it’s niche, it’s high value and, truthfully, it’s kind of confidential, where we’re doing stuff for customers and you really can’t tell people.”

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505 INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES

about this high-tech hotbed where the Upstate SC Alliance says more than 14,000 resident inventors have registered U.S. patents since 2000.

Here’s how Johnson, Director of Clemson University’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing, describes Greenville and environs: “This is a place where the idea of using technology to compete on an international basis with a level playing field is actually done, not just talked about.”

ADVANCED MATERIALS COMPANIES INCLUDE MANUFACTURING FOR: COMPOSITES PLASTICS TECHNICAL TEXTILES OPTICS METALS CHEMICALS CERAMICS

THE UPSTATE’S ADVANCED MATERIALS CLUSTER

Manufacturing has moved from what I would say is low-skill, low-cost into high-skill, high-tech” -Tom Quantrille, president & CEO of Haydale Technologies, Inc. 8 UBJ | September 27, 2019

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Health-sciences manufacturing’s good medicine for the Upstate Kelly Shumaker says one of the buildings where she works is haunted. Not because the plant once manufactured a well-known pharmaceutical to treat diarrhea and nausea, but because the squat redbrick facility sits on a site that was once a military hospital.

“People claimed to have been in the restrooms and looked up in the mirror, and a nurse in an old-timey white uniform would be staring back, and they’d turn around and there’s nobody there,” says Shumaker, Director of (still-living) Human Resources at PAI, or Pharmaceutical Associates Inc. PAI is also among more than 400 life-sciences manufacturers in the Upstate, according to the Upstate SC Alliance, along with CPT Medical Inc., which manufactures custom procedure trays and packs for use in hospitals and surgical settings and whose CEO, Connie Liesman is one of the only—if not the only—female head of an Upstate medical-related manufacturer.

PAI claims 70 % of the “unit dose cups market in the U.S., Shumaker says of the company that makes nearly 90 products from A to Z, all liquid prescriptions and over-thecounter therapies. Their generics

range from Artane, which treats symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, to Zarontin, an anticonvulsant.

The Alliance reports that the sector is good medicine for South Carolina, with $338 million in investments the last five years. The biggest came in 2017, when Arthrex, makers of orthopedic devices, spent $69 million on a 200,000-squarefoot facility in Anderson.

“That is a game-changer for life-sciences manufacturing in the Upstate, in the state of South Carolina and specifically in medical-device manufacturing,” says Erin Ford, Executive Vice President of SCBio, a Greenville-based industry association.

“More announcements like that will continue to put South Carolina on the map for manufacturing innovation and growth in our sector.”

Greenville turned out to be the best spot on the map for Liesman, thanks to South Carolina’s manufacturing tax incentives.

She says she considered Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia before deciding to stay where she had been working in garment manufacturing since 1994. She and a partner started CPT Medical in 2009.

Before that, she says, “I actually spent a year and a half and a couple hundred thousand dollars in research in the industry, and I decided to go into this industry because it was more of a cottage industry. I felt like the international market would never be able to completely come in and take over.”

And neither could a downturn in the economy overtake health-sciences manufacturing—at least, not in Greenville—

I’m seeing more than anything that manufacturing is going on a rise just simply because of the fact that there’s more product that’s required out there.”

-Connie Liesman, CEO of CPT Medical Inc. although Shumaker says that while PAI employs 350 people in its 300,000 square feet of plant space, the continuing labor shortage here poses the biggest challenge.

“As far as manufacturing jobs go, we’re also having to compete with automotive and everything else for those jobs,” she says, “and as the new life-sciences companies are coming in, now we’re also starting to compete for professional labor, so it is a little bit different environment, obviously, than it was even five to 10 years ago.”

Liesman adds that these days, too, more start-up capital is available than since she arrived in Greenville.

“There are a lot of people that consistently are joining together to bring new types of medical devices, to be able to help offset certain diseases,” she says, “but it takes money to be able to do that and it’s highrisk money.”

The reward? Returns on investment in a sector that’s growing in a region that also continues to.

“I’m seeing more than anything that manufacturing is going on a rise just simply because of the fact that there’s more product that’s required out there.”

TOP GROWING SECTORS MEDICAL DEVICES South Carolina boasts signicant business activity within the medical device sector, with a particularly robust medical device manufacturing supply chain.

CLINICAL RESEARCH The Upstate has a strong network supporting clinical research as well as a growing patient catchment area. It is home to a variety of incubation spaces, over 400 clinical trials and more than 800 research studies annually across a variety of disciplines.

PHARMACEUTICALS Upstate South Carolina has an established base of pharmaceutical manufacturers comprised of bulk manufacturers, chemical processors, generic and proprietary drug makers and packagers.

SCIENCE IN ANNOUNCED BY LIFE 400+ LIFE 565 SCLIFEPATENTS 2,688 JOBS FIRMS IN SC SCIENCE SCIENCE COMPANIES Source: Upstate SC Alliance.

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Keys to a thriving manufacturing industry n story by TINA ZWOLINSKI, CEO, ZWO

Even as the manufacturing industry grows in this country, six out of 10 positions go unfilled, according to the L2L Manufacturing Index. The deficit is fueled by the estimate that around 70% of baby boomers will be retired by 2030. A low unemployment rate of 4% further contributes to the statewide difficulty in securing a talent pipeline.

EXPANDING AWARENESS, CHANGING PERCEPTIONS

According to Kronos HR, only 17% of Americans view manufacturing as a viable career choice, in part because many are not familiar with manufacturing as a career choice.

Manufacturing has been stuck with a decades-old stigma that includes the

perception that the industry has low salary limitations, poor job security, narrow career prospects and a dirty factory setting.

CONNECTING WITH A NEW GENERATION

Generation Z (those born 1995 through 2010) is now entering the workforce at 61 million strong. Manufacturing only needs to attract 3 to 4 million of them to fill the available jobs over the next decade. The challenge today — only 27 percent of Gen Z would consider working in the manufacturing industry, according to the L2L Manufacturing Index.

The solution lies in using the right message to boost awareness about possible careers. It will elim-

inate the industry stigma and offer information on educational and career pathways for lifelong industry engagement.

Gen Z is the right target audience.

They are concerned about college debt, are open to alternative educational choices and enjoy learning under mentors in their field. They embrace technology so today’s automated environment fits their workstyle. Although manufacturing salaries are strong, culture and opportunity drive their decisions.

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“Building a healthy, aware, and engaged workforce pipeline is a huge priority for our region, both for existing companies and as we look to new opportunities on the horizon,” says John Lummus, president and CEO of the Upstate SC Alliance.

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Calling all daddies. Prodoh’s founders, Evan Proffitt and DJ Doherty, have the perfect ensemble for all active children.

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Prodoh began as a tiny start-up working out of an attic but now

has over 200 retailers in the U.S. “We decided to open a storefront to serve our local community in 2017,” said Stacey Doherty, DJ Doherty’s wife, of the Prodoh Showroom on Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville. Doherty said they love being able to get to know the faces that have helped Prodoh flourish in the Upstate.

The idea for the store started on a boat when they were searching for fishing shirts for the smallest members of the family and were surprised when they couldn’t find anything.

Proffitt and DJ Doherty decided to change the designer game and develop a shirt that is “just like daddy’s.”

They turned their passion for the outdoors into safe, comfort-

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It’s easy to say you’re a lifestyle brand…but really living it, and raising your children while building one, is a true test of character. ” -DJ Doherty, Prodoh co-founder Prodoh believes in promises, passion, perseverance and being present, and seeks to express those values through its clothing designs. “It’s easy

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With a simple mission to get kids outdoors, Prodoh hopes parents will see the importance of being present in their children’s lives and of getting children outside to learn about the world.

Whether you’re a mom looking for something appropriate to put your child in that can be dressed up or down or a grandparent wanting to spoil a grandchild, Prodoh has plenty of options.

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Retaining talent in a tough job market Because of HTI’s significant presence helping companies recruit talent in South Carolina, we invariably speak with a variety of companies in different industries about their ongoing HR challenges. Over the years, discussions have ranged on topics like employee relations, benefits, compensation, etc. However, in the last three years, we’ve faced the toughest job market in 30 years. This has driven most conversations back to one central question: how do we retain our top talent in this tough job market?

A fundamental change companies must HERB DEW, HTI make in this market is spending enough time identifying what they must do to keep their most critical employees. A hard truth that this current employment market forces: your most important people are also the most important people to other companies.

Thus, making them very clear targets to be recruited away from you and into your competitor’s hands.

Companies that have the healthiest approach take advantage of the instability that this market creates, and take a two-pronged approach: A. They listen to employees and adjust to help retain their top performers.

B. They are utilizing the job market to upgrade their lower performers.

So how can companies retain their best people? This is the question that we face at HTI all the time while talking with South Carolina Employers. A misperception most companies have is that compensation is an employee’s top priority. Surprisingly, compensation on most surveys ranks 5th among most important criteria employees are seeking in job satisfaction. The three areas to focus on involve something much less expensive.

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Employees want a clear understanding of the company’s vision, goals and objectives.

Gallup research found employees who are “engaged and thriving” are 59% less likely to look for a job with a different organization in the next 12 months. In other words, working with a team toward a specific mission and vision with a purpose beyond profits is an important employee experience.

Employees want to know their role in the company, its direction, and opportunities to learn and grow.

93% of employees would stay with a company longer if it invested in their careers, according to the most recent LinkedIn Workforce Learning Report. Empowering employees to improve their network, skillset, and knowledge base improves your company by improving the employee working for you and creating a positive culture. Opportunities for growth are especially important to Millennials in the workforce.

Employees want active, ongoing communication from their leaders regarding their performance and development.

This starts with solid onboarding processes that outline clear expectations of day-to-day responsibilities and long-term goals for employees. Career Development is the top reason why employees quit for the 9th consecutive year as found by the Work Institute. After onboarding, it is critical to ensure your company has an established process for ongoing communication between leaders and their team. As a leader, it is critical that you act on the communication and outcome of those meetings.

South Carolina provides an attractive location for employees to live.

State Government works closely with employers to provide a good, pro-business work culture. Now companies must begin to look around the country as well as in-state at companies innovating great work cultures. It all starts with communication, good listening and not being afraid to try different ideas.

A good friend of mine who leads a large North American organization recently addressed a conference here in South Carolina. He said the great thing about “disruption” is that it creates an opportunity to innovate and change. This job market is that; a disruption. Embrace that disruption.

Listen to your employees and become a company embracing and improving in this tough job market.

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IMAGINE THIS – SOMEONE WALKS INTO A PHONE STORE AND PRETENDS TO BE YOU WITH A FAKE ID AND YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. They want to switch carriers and walk away with control of your phone number. Although this is illegal, bad guys can steal your phone number, and transfer it to a phone they control. Once they have your number, they can authenticate your bank account because your bank will call the stolen number to verify your account. Likewise, with other accounts. And you may not notice there’s a problem for days.

HOW DO YOU SECURE YOUR MOBILE PHONE NUMBER? • Be careful about who has your mobile phone number, and limit how often you share it with others.

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• Consider freezing your credit to help prevent new accounts from being opened in your name.

• Keep your personal inbox clean- in case someone does access your account the information available is minimized.

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On a two-mile straightaway test track, you may see police officers practicing high-speed maneuvers; research being conducted on Proterra buses; or major automotive companies like Michelin and Toyota doing performance testing.

While each company’s work at the International Transportation Innovation Center (ITIC) in Greenville serves an important purpose, promising bigger picture results could include alleviating traffic congestion and changing how city streets are protected and public transportation is carried out.

ITIC’s mission is to provide a safe, collaborative environment for vehicle testing and validation.

Located at S.C. Technology & Aviation Center (SCTAC) – minutes from CU-ICAR, Michelin North America and BMW North American Manufacturing – ITIC is in the center of the area’s growing automotive cluster.

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Here are three ways ITIC is helping shape the future of vehicles and roadways:

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When Ford was marketing the Interceptor sedan during its first model year, the Greenville Police Department used the ITIC site to test the automobile’s capabilities. Since then, the department has used the test track for driver training scenarios including dayto-day precision driving techniques and high-speed handling.

“While a suspect’s behavior is beyond our control, officers are taught techniques and responses that can help minimize the danger to the public like stopping cross traffic at intersections ahead of a pursuit to reduce the likelihood of a collision,” said Sgt. Nate Overholt, the department’s lead driving instructor.

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The controlled, scenario-based training helps officers because “it allows them to become more familiar with their patrol vehicle’s limitations and how they’ll respond to emergency situations,” Overholt said.

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Research and development are at the core of the Proterra’s business model. Having a track facility so close to the Greenville-based East Coast manufacturing and operations hub has provided ample opportunity for hands-on work, said Lyndon Schneider, director of vehicle development and integration.

Proterra does computer-aided engineering and structural analysis, but still relies on physical tests to confirm what the computer models show and give a final validation of the product, Schneider said.

Battery-electric buses are the cornerstone of mobile sustainability, Schneider said, and in fact, he predicts that “transportation will likely be one of the first segments in the U.S. to make a complete transition to zero-emission vehicles.”

THE FUTURE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Research led by Clemson professor Ardalan Vahidi shows that connected and automated vehicles offer unprecedented opportunities for energy-efficient driving with easier access to information, increased processing power and precision control.

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The project research at ITIC’s testbed to design speed and lane selection algorithms that allow vehicles to anticipate rather than react, said Ali Reza Fayazi, PhD and Clemson Post-Doctoral Fellow.

The algorithms, programmed in the autonomous vehicle’s embedded computer, command the gas and brake pedals and control the steering wheel, Fayazi said.

Clemson researchers use computer simulations to determine the energy efficiency of thousands of human-driven and automated vehicles driving in mixed traffic streams. They also do live experiments with two autonomous vehicles on the test track to create realistic interactions.

The expected goal is to improve safety by reducing human error and to improve travel times, fuel consumption and emissions.

If an auto manufacturer picks up the technology, Fayazi said it could be added into vehicles’ existing computer systems.

As for the future: “When the technology is mature, there won’t be a steering wheel or pedals in the car,” he said. “For now, like cruise control or Tesla’s AutoPilot, drivers could switch between human and autonomous driving.”

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The most recent renderings of the AC Hotel by Marriott’s rooftop bar have been submitted to the City of Greenville Design Review Board Urban Panel.

The hotel in the Camperdown Development at 305 S. Main St. previously received a certificate of appropriateness and is going back before the DRB for approval on proposed modifications.

Architectural drawings show the dining terrace, the greenhouse, the dining room, and the sculpture garden.

Other modifications for approval include changing a metal panel color; adding covered seating to a previously approved seating area; doing away with a

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In addition to the 200-room Auro Hotels project, the development from Greenville-based developer Centennial American Properties will include an apartment building, a public plaza, restaurants and retail, and the 17-story mixeduse Falls Tower.

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The founder and chairman of Lima One Capital, John Warren recently sold his majority ownership stake in the Greenville-based company to minority partners. The specialty mortgage finance company was founded in 2011 and serves real estate investors with customized loan products.

As a Greenville native and a former infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps, Warren enjoys serving his community and country.

In 2018, he reached the runoff in the Republican primary for governor of South Carolina.

“Business is important to me, but my passion is service,” he says. “This

The biggest reward for me is also being able to give out so many careers to people.”

-John Warren, Lima One founder and chairman While the company headquarters, leadership team and all current jobs remain in Greenville, the transaction allows Warren to pursue interests outside of business.

transaction really frees my wife and I to be involved in a variety of different things from philanthropy to being involved more in the community and also politics down the road.”

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Warren says Lima One, which now has more than 300 employees nationwide, has doubled in size every year over the past five years.

He expects the company to have between $1.25 and $1.5 billion in originations this year alone.

“For the company, it’s really an unlimited capital source,” Warren says. “[The transaction] will allow us to drop our cost of capital so we’ll be even more competitive in terms of operational costs.”

The transaction also benefits the city and state as a whole, according to Warren. “I think it’s a great thing for Greenville and South Carolina to prove that we can have a true startup, and not only a startup but a startup in the financial sector,” he says. “I think we’ve been very

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Starting Lima One because of over-regulation of banks, Warren saw an opportunity to provide financing for real estate investors and homebuilders. Years later, he’s handing off the company to make an impact elsewhere.

“I’m probably a little shocked at how much I enjoyed business coming from the Marine Corps,” Warren says. “The biggest reward for me is also being able to give out so many careers to people.”

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The reality for some college degree-seeking students in Greenville is that debt looms over their heads before they even receive a degree.

But there is help available through local charitable and nonprofit organizations that offer a solution to pricey tuition.

LOCAL NONPROFIT – JOLLEY FOUNDATION

The Jolley Foundation is one such organization. Greenvillians Robert Albert Jolley Sr. and Rucker Tweedy Jolley founded the organization in 1947 to provide financial assistance for the family’s broadcasting and wholesale beverage employees during family crises such as illness, injury, or home loss.

In subsequent years, the Jolley family’s commitment to social justice led them to establish sustainable solutions for problems that cause discrimination and poverty. The foundation also began to invest in nonprofit organizations that served community needs in a collaborative philanthropic effort. “[The Jolley Foundation] has been using their resources to support and strengthen Greenville for seven-plus decades,” says Tish McCutchen, the Jolley Foundation’s program officer. “So now the trustees are the third and fourth generations of that family, and they are all very oriented towards social justice.”

We’re willing to be agents of change. We’re willing to use all of our different kinds of capital.”

-Tish McCutchen, Jolley Foundation Program Officer

HOW THE JOLLEY FOUNDATION BENEFITS THE GREENVILLE COMMUNITY

Part of social justice is providing valuable resources to those who need it most. The Jolley Foundation regularly awards scholarships to deserving students who may not perform as well in college without the assistance. Kaitlyn Coons received a merit-based Jolley Family Endowed Scholarship in the 2017-18 school year. Amounts vary for the scholarship, but Coons says the award helped her navigate the uncertain, expensive waters of higher education.

“My adviser, professor [April] Dove, was the honors director when I was there. She was the one who encouraged me to apply [for the scholarship],” Coons says. Coons praised the scholarship application process at Greenville Technical College, noting its simplicity. “So they [Greenville Tech Foundation] make it a really nice application process, where you apply just once with them and they match you with a scholarship,” Coons explains.

McCutchen also commended Greenville Tech and explained its close relationship to the Jolley Foundation. “They [Greenville Tech] asked to change the nature of the [Jolley] scholarship fund to be more situational emergency assistance, which we thought was a great idea.”

Situational emergency assistance is pivotal in determining a student’s success. “Often students are one flat tire or one book away from not completing their course,” says Judy Wilson, director of development at Greenville Tech. This is an example of reactive assistance. McCutchen says that while providing this assistance is important and can make a difference, the Jolley Foundation continues to work with Greenville Tech to adopt more preventive measures.

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“We’re willing to be agents of change,” McCutchen says. “We’re willing to use all of our different kinds of capital — financial capital, social capital, and relationships and intellectual capital, the knowledge that we have as trustees — we’re willing to deploy all of those resources to create our own vision, which is a Greenville that is just a compassionate environment.”

Scholarship recipients like Coons have high praise for the Jolley Foundation. “I don’t know if I would have been as successful at Greenville Tech without the scholarship,” she says. Coons graduated from Greenville Tech with no debt; she is now finishing her education at Converse College.

“I also didn’t have to work during my associate’s degree those two years,” Coons explains. “So that was really beneficial. I could just focus on my studies. So it really did affect my life in that way where I was just able to focus on school for two years.”

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Most of us probably thought Apple’s rollout last week of the iPhone 11 was a ho-hum event. But a pretty bigstep tech development was lurking in the small type: the official release of Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax for the geeks).

Although there are a bunch of technologies involved in Wi-Fi 6, the thing likely to resonate with most businesses or consumers is the speed.

While Wi-Fi 6 will be significantly faster in all environments, it’s especially efficient in crowded networks such as public spaces. That’s because there are a number of tools allowing it to deliver more data at once. Other improvements include expanded range, reduction in dropped or disrupted connections, and enhanced security using WPA3, the most current standard for wireless encryption.

That’s going to be good news for businesses where Wi-Fi connections to mobile devices are critical, as well as to consumers who are hungry for more speed.

But stop! Network speeds are a highly interconnected ecosystem. A Wi-Fi 6 “capable” device has to receive compatible signals from a WiFi 6 router to reach these numbers.

And how much information comes through to the router is dependent on the outside infrastructure.

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• Check your IoT-connected devices to see what Wi-Fi protocols they require. Some of the newer routers may drop compatibility

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• Check your bank account. Asus, Netgear, and D-Link all have consumer-level routers, but the price can run $300-$400.

• Check with your internet service provider to see if your ISP will be able deliver significantly faster speeds. Charter Spectrum began offering a Wi-Fi 6 compatible router in late 2018, but most Charter plans offer 200 Mbps (with significant reductions for wireless connections).

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The WiFi Alliance is launching an official certification program, and you will see more and more devices, gear, and gadgets that take advantage of it.

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On the Move

HIRED: Marnie Schwartz-Hanley recently joined the

Greenville Chamber of Commerce as an engagement manager, focusing on supporting and developing Chamber Investors.

She will also relaunch the Ambassador program. She earned her bachelor’s degree in human and social service administration from Bellevue University.

Some of the Upstate’s most recent hires, promotions, awards, and appointments AWARDED:

HIRED:

Brittney Brackett received the 2019 Legacy

Garrett Catalano recently joined Jackson Marketing,

NAMED:

HIRED:

Rebecca Clark, has been named director of the

Dr. Suhail Kumar recently joined the staff of Piedmont Arthritis Clinic, PA. Kumar is board certified in rheumatology and internal medicine. He previously served as clinical assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville.

Committee’s Community Service Award. Brackett has served the Upstate with numerous organizations including The Ronald McDonald House, City of Greenville, The Community Informer, the Kamala Harris Campaign, Senior Action, and local churches.

Honors Program at Greenville Technical College. Clark earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Coastal Carolina University and a master’s degree in English from Clemson University.

Motorsports & Events as dealer and product portfolio manager serving the company’s motorsports clients.

Catalano has more than 20 years of experience in the tire business, including ownership of “Offroad Tire Guy Inc.,” which he founded in 2015.

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HIRED:

HIRED:

Billy Lockwood recently joined ADC Engineering,

Scott Hutsell recently joined THS Constructors, Inc.

HIRED:

PROMOTED:

George Perez recently joined Infinity Marketing as a web designer and developer. Perez attended the Iron Yard Academy, earning a certification in UI design and front-end development.

Teresa Ferguson has been promoted to vice president

HIRED:

PROMOTED:

Harriet P. Wallace recently joined Fox Rothschild

Bryant Patterson was recently promoted to senior

Inc. as a civil engineering project designer. Lockwood received his bachelor of science in civil engineering from Clemson University. He previously worked as an engineering intern at Maser Consulting.

LLP as a partner in the financial restructuring and bankruptcy department. Wallace was previously a shareholder in the Greenville office of Turner Padget. She is also a graduate of the University of South Carolina and the College of Charleston.

Chad Hardin Technical Recruiter

as assistant superintendent. Hutsell was previously a construction materials tester at Bunnell Lammons Engineering. He currently holds a project management degree.

for student development and dean of students at Spartanburg Methodist College (SMC). Ferguson has previously served as dean of students and chief of campus safety.

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8:30-9:30am |Ciclops Cyderi and Brewery Every month, entrepreneurs present their startup companies to their communities and learn how they can help their businesses flourish.

Terrance Hawes at thawes@spartanburgchamber.com

Noon-1:00pm | Mauldin Cultural Center For anyone looking for business leads; hosted by the Mauldin Chamber.

The Mauldin Chamber at 864-297-1323

8:45-10:00am | Greenville Chamber This noncompete leads group offers business networking and referral marketing.

Ebony Austin at 864-239-3730 or eaustin@greenvillechamber.org

OCT

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Small Business – The Dark Web from an FBI Perspective 9:00-11:00am | University Center Greenville An overview and discussion of the dark web, virtual currency, and current financial threats to small business, including ransomware and business email compromise, from the perspective of the FBI $15/person Register: bit.ly/fbiperspective photo source go.peteforamerica.com

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OCT

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Chamber Connects Referral Group 2 Noon-1:00pm | Simpsonville Chamber of Commerce Monthly series featuring a guest speaker and information to help grow your business.

Josh Wiseman at JoshWiseman@KW.com

OCT

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Sippin’ in Simpsonville Oktoberfest 6:00-10:00pm | Check-in begins at 5:00pm | Downtown Simpsonville, along Main and Curtis streets This event is a beer-tasting tour of Simpsonville’s downtown shops and local businesses. Guest check-in will be at the Simpsonville Chamber office $25 per person in advance | $35 per person day of | $45 per person for VIP Simpsonville Area Chamber of Commerce at 864-963-3781 or jrichardson@simpsonvillechamber.com

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Building with Integrity

3rd Annual Diversity & Inclusion Summit 9:00am-7:00pm | Greenville Convention Center | 851 Congaree Rd., Greenville This all-day event is designed to energize your D&I efforts and help you discover innovation found within inclusion-minded leadership. Speakers include Jennifer Brown, CEO, Jennifer Brown Consulting; Victoria Russell, chief diversity officer, Papa John’s Pizza; Karen Hinds, founder/CEO, Workplace Success Group and many more. $150 for Greenville Chamber members, $225 for nonmembers Nika White at 864-239-3727 or nikawhiteconsulting@greenvillechamber.org

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Hispanic Business Entrepreneurship Panel

9:00am-4:00pm | Spartanburg Community College A one-day professional development course offered by the Spartanburg Academic Movement.

Register at bit.ly/CI101register. Mendy Mossbrook at mmossbrook@learnwithsam.org

11:00am-1:00pm | Springhill Suites & Residence Inn This event includes lunch. $25 per person, Register at bit.ly/HBEpanel

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Chamber Connects Referral Group 1 8:30-9:30am | Simpsonville First Baptist Church Members are encouraged to bring qualified, quality referrals to other members.

Free to Simpsonville Chamber members Aaron Rupe at Aaron.Rupe@dexyp.com

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Business After Hours 5:30-7:30pm | ReWa Evening networking event hosted by the Greenville Chamber of Commerce.

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New to the Street Recently opened businesses in the Upstate

One of nation’s largest musical retailers adds location in Greenville n photo PROVIDED

Parks Family Dental recently held a ribbon cutting. This dental practice offers cleanings, sealants, fillings, crowns, bridges, veneers, full and partial dentures, implant restorations, extractions, periodontal care, and teeth whitening. For new patients, they offer a new patient consultation with a full-mouth exam.

Where: 100 Professional Ct., Mauldin Hours: 8 a.m.-1 p.m., 2-5 p.m. M-TH For more information: Call 864-288-4515 or visit www.parksfamilydentalsc.com.

Music & Arts, a musical instrumental retailer and lesson provider, has opened a location in Greenville at 1025 Woodruff Road, Suite 104.

The store provides rentals, sales and repairs of band and orchestral instruments.

The company hosts a variety of free, family-friendly special events, according to a press release.

“A strong music education during childhood provides a great foundation for academic learning, and with our expansion, we’re proud to

bring the benefits high-quality music education to many more families, along with our welcoming environment,” Music & Arts national sales manager Jeremy Mueller said in a statement.

The Music & Arts website is www.MusicArts.com.

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offer. Each month one lucky winner will win a Dining Group restaurant. Three honorable

sports Group is housed in an additional 26,000 square feet building just down the street, and the agency is currently looking for another 20,000 square feet.

Jackson said JMG has expanded into other verticals such as financial, healthcare, manufacturing and pro-bono work, but still has a strong focus on the auto industry and transportation. It’s

problems, serve people and grow careers.”

Darrell Jackson said he wants to “continue helping lead a culture where we solve, serve and grow. If we are successful, we will continue to grow towards our ultimate goal of becoming the leading integrated marketing communications brand in the Southeast.”

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