Arconic, Celotex and Kingspan were ‘untroubled by the safety of their products’, says families’ QC
International companies that manufactured Grenfell Tower’s cladding “abused” testing regimes meant to check fire safety, deliberately misled customers about the performance of their products and circumvented regulations with clever marketing, the public inquiry into the disaster has heard.
Arconic, which made the cladding sheets that were the main cause of the fire’s spread, obtained a certificate for its plastic-filled panels on “a false premise” by supplying test reports for a more fire-retardant version of the product, lawyers for the bereaved and survivors told the inquiry.
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