“Deliberate concealment” is how Grenfell Inquiry barrister Richard Millett QC described materials manufacturer Arconic’s marketing of its combustible ACM cladding.

The accusation was a central theme in this week’s evidence at the inquiry, which focused on the degree to which Arconic knowingly misled its customers on the fire safety of its combustible Reynobond PE cassette cladding panels.

The firm sold 3,000sq m of the cassettes to the team working on the refurbishment of the Grenfell Tower – cladding which, along with other materials produced by Kingspan and Celotex, has been found to be the “primary cause” of the disastrous fire in June 2017 which claimed the lives of 72 people.

…