The sales executive who sold highly combustible cladding to Grenfell Tower was warned by managers not to share detailed information about the fire safety of products with customers, a public inquiry was told.
Emails revealed at the Grenfell Tower inquiry show Deborah French, UK sales manager for the US company Arconic, asking in 2011 if she could forward technical documents on the differences between two cladding products to an engineering firm.
Her technical manager Claude Wehrle responded: “OH MY LORD!!! Where did you get that from??? For sure you’re NOT allowed to diffuse to the customer those documents.”
Wehrle told French that she should confine discussion to the different classifications for cladding panels with a polyethylene (PE) core and those with a fire retardant (FR)