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Firm stopped selling Grenfell cladding in France over fire safety, inquiry hears
But UK sales manager of product firm Arconic says he was not told to do so in the UK
Arconic ordered its French sales team to stop selling the type of combustible cladding installed on Grenfell Tower over a year before the 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.
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