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SALES managers in France working for the company that produced combustible cladding used on Grenfell Tower were ordered to stop recommending the product more than a year before the fire.
Vince Meakins, sales manager for Arconic’s British division, told the inquiry into the disaster yesterday that he was unaware that his counterparts in France had been told to stop promoting the deadly cladding.
The company made and sold the flammable aluminium composite material rainscreen panels with a polyethylene (PE) plastic core that were fitted on Grenfell Tower in west London, where 72 people in died in the June 2017 fire.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
As we approach the half-anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, the community gathers to remember loved ones while grappling with mixed emotions surrounding the ongoing deconstruction of the tower and the hopeful plans for a memorial, writes EMMA DENT COAD
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
