Evil firms must pay for this they have no pity for humanity, says Grenfell survivor
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Updated: Feb 22 2021, 15:37 ET
THE companies that supplied flammable material for Grenfell Tower have been branded “evil” by a survivor who heard them give evidence.
Staff at French-owned Celotex and Irish firm Kingspan told the public inquiry into the disaster how profits were put ahead of safety.
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Survivor Joseph John says the companies that supplied flammable material for Grenfell Tower are evil Credit: Joseph John
Employees from cladding company Arconic have refused to even attend the hearing.
Grenfell resident Joseph John, a 29-year-old chef who fled from the 2017 inferno with his baby son Malachi in his arms, told The Sun on Sunday: “I think they are evil. They cared more about money than the residents’ lives.
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By Tom Lowe2021-02-16T10:41:00+00:00
But UK sales manager says he was never given the instruction
Arconic ordered its French sales team to stop selling the type of combustible cladding installed on Grenfell Tower over a year before the West London fire, the inquiry has heard.
The hearing was shown an internal email on Monday from the firm’s French sales director Alain Flacon instructing French sales teams to stop recommending Reynobond PE, a type of ACM cladding, to customers because of fire concerns.
Reynobond PE, which contained a combustible 100% polyethylene core and had burned ferociously in fire tests, had been downgraded to a lower fire rating in 2014 which prohibited its use on high-rise buildings.