Major insulation and cladding manufacturers have engaged in “sinister” attempts to undermine building regulations and have manipulated the testing regime to present dangerous products as safe, the ...

Strongwell’s Strongirt® is the ideal continuous insulation (CI) cladding attachment support system. This all-FRP fiberglass pultruded composite uses a custom fire-retardant resin system and unique ...

The cladding panels and insulation boards used on the walls of Grenfell Tower contributed roughly equal amounts of suffocating gas to the toxic smoke that trapped and killed the victims of the blaze, ...

Italian chemical and development group Acell (Milan, Italy) has already earned kudos in the construction composites industry with its innovative foam-cored sandwich panels for doors (click on “SMC ...

Dublin, May 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Exterior Insulation and Finish System (EIFS) Market by Type (PB, PM), Insulation Material (EPS, MW), End-use (Residential, Non-residential), ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Companies that made the cladding and insulation used on Grenfell Tower will be questioned this week as an ...

The government is not testing the material, which could be potentially more flammable than the cladding INSULATION behind cladding in tower blocks has not been tested for fire risks, it has emerged.

The narrow staircase that was the residents only means of escape has been described as a 'deathtrap' THE NARROW staircase and “flammable” insulation at Grenfell Tower proved as deadly as the firetrap ...

The cladding contractor which wrapped the Grenfell Tower in combustible materials received a near 48 per cent discount on the insulation it used, the inquiry into the 2017 fire has heard The discount ...