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Staff urged Arconic to stop selling Grenfell cladding after hearing it could burn like a truck of oil | News

Cladding firm boss shocked at products potential dangers, Grenfell inquiry told

Company that sold Grenfell panels was warned in 2007 they could kill

Company that sold Grenfell panels was warned in 2007 they could kill Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA 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”.

Taylor Wimpey will pay out £125m to replace cladding and improve fire safety

Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey will pay out £125 million to replace cladding and improve fire safety on all blocks built in the last 20 years in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.  The money is set to be placed in a fund in order to provide certainty for customers and leaseholders and to avoid them bearing the cost of investment to ensure their buildings are safe , the company said. It comes just weeks after ministers set aside £3.5 billion in funding to help repair or replace cladding more than three years on from the tragic fire in west London, which left 72 dead. More than a million leaseholders face bills of up to £115,000 to fix unsafe homes and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick told the Commons last month that those in blocks over 18 metres (60ft) high would no longer have to pay to replace flammable cladding. 

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