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Arconic told a “misleading half truth” when it presented only European fire test results for its Reynobond 55 PE cladding in rivet form, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard.

Arconic regarded the stoppage of a test on its Reynobond 55 PE cladding in cassette variant as a “rogue result”, the Grenfell Inquiry has heard.

Arconic removed details that showed that the cassette variant of its Reynobond 55 PE cladding no longer confirmed to Class B in European fire tests from marketing literature, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard.

The UK sales manager for Arconic, the firm that supplied the Reynobond ACM 55 PE cladding used on Grenfell Tower, did not discuss the combustibility of the products she was marketing with clients, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard.

Kingspan workers were instructed to allow changes proposed by the British Board of Agrément (BBA) to the fire certificate for the K15 insulation product to “gather dust”, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard.

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry aims to resume hearings on 8 February. The hearings had been due to restart in January after a Christmas break but the decision was taken not…

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry has been suspended following the announcement of new coronavirus restrictions. The Inquiry had been due to resume hearing oral evidence on 11 January after a Christmas…

A manager at Kingspan, which manufactured the Kooltherm K15 insulation used on Grenfell Tower, has admitted that dismissing a contractor’s concerns about the material’s suitability for use in buildings above 18m with an expletive in an internal email was “totally unprofessional”.

A former employee of Celotex has described how she was “shocked” to discover “tweaks” to a second fire safety test of the firm’s RS5000 insulation product, after a first had…

A former employee of Kingspan became “embroiled in a deliberate and calculated deceit” over the suitability of the firm’s K15 phenolic insulation for use on high-rise buildings, the Grenfell Tower…

The way Kingspan marketed the Kooltherm K15 insulation that was used on the Grenfell Tower refurbishment was “misleading” and was based on a 2005 fire test for years, despite the…

With module two of the second phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry getting underway, Paul Morrell warns why looking to construction’s ‘good old days’ won’t provide the answer to fixing…

A former Celotex employee was aware that his colleagues were attempting to create a “misleading” test report for the combustible Celotex RS5000 insulation used in Grenfell Tower, as part of…

Architect Studio E’s confidence in the combustible Celotex polyisocyanurate insulation specified to be used behind the ACM rainscreen cladding panels during the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower represented a “major failure”,…

The former head of marketing at Celotex has accepted that the literature produced to market the combustible RS5000 insulation used in Grenfell Tower was “misleading” but denied that it was deliberately so.

The former head of marketing at Celotex has denied knowledge of a key change made to a testing rig that allowed its combustible RS5000 insulation product to pass a BS…

Action taken by Celotex at the time it was developing a marketing strategy for a new form of panel insulation that eventually ended up being used in the Grenfell Tower refurbishment were “completely unethical” the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard.