By Tom Lowe2021-03-11T11:08:00+00:00 Manager told Arconic of expert’s prediction that ACM panels would burn like a ‘truck of 19,000 litre oil’ The firm which sold combustible cladding panels used on the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower was warned a decade before the deadly fire that the material would burn like fuel oil and could kill up to 70 people, the inquiry has heard. Arconic marketing manager Gerard Sonntag attended an industry event in Norway in 2007 where a cladding expert set out the dangers of using plastic-filled ACM panels on buildings. The expert, Fred-Roderich Pohl, a consultant for metals firm Otefal, said that 5,000m