Grenfell Cladding Boss Denies ‘Deliberate Concealment’ Of Test Results

The president of Arconic has denied that it was “deliberate concealment” not to tell British regulators that its cladding product had burned in a test, the Grenfell inquiry has heard. Claude Schmidt said that the British Board of Agrément (BBA) “could have found out” about the test results of its Reynobond PE cassettes, which were installed as part of Grenfell Tower’s refurbishment. In 2005, the firm had tested two versions of its Reynobond PE cladding. The first had been on a riveted form of the product, which had resulted in a Euroclass B rating, allowing it to be used on the external walls of high rise buildings. The second was on a folded version which had “performed disastrously”, releasing seven times more heat and three times as much smoke than the riveted version. Read more on the Housing Today website.

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