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The government may move to force cladding manufacturers to contribute to the costs of remediating unsafe buildings, according to building safety minister

But firm continued selling Reynobond PE panels in UK until a week after tragedy

Speaking in a House of Lords debate yesterday (22 February), the minister said: 'It is worth looking at the cladding manufacturers because, as well as the

One of the most senior US executives at the company Arconic was likely told its cladding panels were unsafe for buildings above 12 metres in height, two years before the Grenfell Tower disaster, the public inquiry has heard. The $7bn a year turnover aluminium specialist sold the plastic-filled panels for use on the apartment block in west London, which was more than five times taller than that maximum and went up in flames in June 2017 – killing...

One of the most senior US executives at the company Arconic was likely told its cladding panels were unsafe for buildings above 12 metres in height, two years before the Grenfell Tower disaster, the public inquiry has heard. The $7bn a year turnover aluminium specialist sold the plastic-filled panels for use on the apartment block in west London, which was more than five times taller than that maximum and went up in flames in June 2017 – killing...

An executive at a cladding manufacturer agrees with a lawyer's description of the risk.

French executive says he is ‘practically sure’ he sent assessment to senior colleague in US

By Tom Lowe2021-02-20T07:00:00+00:00 Hearings focused on the degree to which manufacturer had misled customers over the fire performance of its ACM cladding panels “Deliberate concealment” is how Grenfell Inquiry barrister Richard Millett QC described materials manufacturer Arconic’s marketing of its combustible ACM cladding. The accusation was a central theme in this week’s evidence at the inquiry, which focused on the degree to which Arconic knowingly misled its customers on the fir...

By Tom Lowe2021-02-19T14:00:00+00:00 Hearings focused on the degree to which manufacturer had misled customers over the fire performance of its ACM cladding panels “Deliberate concealment” is how Grenfell Inquiry barrister Richard Millett QC described materials manufacturer Arconic’s marketing of its combustible ACM cladding. The accusation was a central theme in this week’s evidence at the inquiry, which focused on the degree to which Arconic knowingly misled its customers on the fir...

By Tom Lowe2021-02-19T12:08:00+00:00 Arconic president tells Grenfell inquiry staff lied to clients over fire performance An Arconic technical manager described the firm as “not clean” to a sales executive who had been trying to sell the same type of combustible cladding panels used on the Grenfell Tower’s refurbishment, the inquiry into the west London fire has heard. Thursday’s hearing was shown emails in the summer of 2010 between technical manager Claude Wehrle and sales executi...