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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 fire safety of its combustible Reynobond PE cassette cladding panels. The firm sold 3,000sq m of the ca...

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 fire safety of its combustible Reynobond PE cassette cladding panels. The firm sold 3,000sq m of the ca...

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 executive Isabel Moyses in which Wehrle made the warning after the client had insisted on seeing test repor...