On October 21, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Lutnick announced at a Trump campaign rally in North Carolina on Tuesday that industrial mineral mining and processing company Sibelco will make new investments in the state to support semiconductor production. He stated that Sibelco will establish silicon manufacturing facilities, specifically for quartz production, which is fundamental to the semiconductor industry. Although specific details were not disclosed, he noted that the investment scale will reach hundreds of millions of dollars.
