Arconic warned Spanish customer not to use panels in 2011, but later sold them to Grenfell project
The company that sold the combustible panels that spread the Grenfell Tower fire was warned a decade before the disaster that such material burns like fuel oil, releases lethal toxic smoke and could become involved in a fire killing up to 70 people, the public inquiry into the disaster has heard.
In an uncanny foreshadowing of the June 2017 disaster that claimed 72 lives, an executive from Arconic attended a seminar in Norway in 2007 where a cladding expert raised the question of a manufacturer’s responsibility if a “building made out of polyethylene (PE) core [cladding catches] fire and will kill 60 to 70 persons”.
