Mark Kent
KENTWOOL began as the Kent Manufacturing Co. in Philadelphia 164 years ago and today is led by President and CEO Mark Kent of Greenville.

KENTWOOL is a South Carolina-based textile company with the vision to become the premier wool innovation and manufacturing company in the world. Its state-of-the-art wool-based yarn-spinning operation serves a diversified international customer base covering the knitting, spinning, weaving and industrial textile markets.

KENTWOOL was the first company in the Western Hemisphere to produce a high-caliber, “superfine” wool product now used by world-renowned clothiers such as Loro Piana and St. John.

Uster Technologies of Switzerland recently awarded KENTWOOL a unique quality certification, unprecedented in North America, for its production of some of the world’s finest yarn, signifying defined and certified quality within the textile chain.
KENTWOOL’S 100,000-square-foot production facility is located in Upstate South Carolina. 

Brian Morin
Brian Morin is CEO of Innegrity LLC, a high-performance manufacturer of fibers used in ballistic-protection, transportation and sporting-goods applications. Formed in 2004 in Greenville County, Innegrity recently announced plans to invest $15 million to expand its manufacturing operation and create up to 150 jobs at a new 120,000-square-foot facility in Mauldin.

The company produces two state-of-the-art fibers.

Innegra S high-performance fiber is a lightweight fiber that delivers toughness in a composite while reducing weight. It provides economical ballistic protection as well as allowing weight reduction in boats, cars and trains, which ultimately reduces fuel consumption.

A second fiber, Innegra E, has the lowest dielectric constant and loss tangent available for the printed circuit-board industry, allowing smaller circuits to perform the work of more complex designs while conserving energy.