Suppliers had concerns their products would burn, Grenfell Inquiry told

By Tom Lowe and Dave Rogers2020-11-10T06:00:00

Hearing shown internal documents from Arconic and Celotex flagging up worries about suitability of materials

Lawyers for the bereaved and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have said products firms Arconic, Celotex and Kingspan carried out “widespread and persistent wrongdoing” in the run up to the fire, the inquiry into the disaster has been told.

The next phase of the inquiry began last week after contractors and consultants spent weeks being grilled about their involvement in the June 2017 fire which killed 72 people.

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