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By Tom Symonds
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The company that made Grenfell Tower s cladding would by default sell flammable materials to construction projects, including high-rise buildings, a sales manager has said.
Deborah French told the public inquiry into the June 2017 west London blaze that Arconic could have sold a fire-retardant product.
But she said it saw the UK market as preferring a slightly cheaper version, albeit with a greater fire risk.
Seventy-two people died in the fire.
The first phase of the Grenfell Inquiry concluded that cladding put on the tower block during refurbishment fuelled the fire.
Statements from a series of Arconic managers shown to the inquiry on Tuesday said the UK was generally a PE market - PE referring to polyethylene, which is used as the core material of the panel and is highly flammable.