Grenfell Cladding Firm President Accepts Staff ‘Lied’ And ‘Misled’ Customers

The president of the French firm which sold the cladding panels used on Grenfell Tower has accepted that its staff “misled” and “lied” to customers, as he was grilled about a series of internal emails which showed it hiding serious test failures from the market. The inquiry has already heard that testing from 2005 showed the panels obtained a reasonably high ‘Euroclass B’ rating when fixed to a wall with rivets, but burned 10 times as fiercely and failed “spectacularly” when bent into ‘cassette’ shapes and hung from the wall on rails. Read more on Inside Housing.

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