Rivet systems are simply installed straight onto mounting brackets, with rivets. In "cassette" systems the cladding is folded into box shapes, like old-style cassette tapes, to hide the fixings.

As the section of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry examining how the products used in the cladding system were tested, marketed and sold comes to a close, Peter Apps summarises what we have learned about ...

The cladding used on grenfell tower performed 'spectacularly worse' than a sister product in fire tests, the inquiry into the disaster heard today. The Reynobond PE (polyethylene) cladding panels came ...

New York, April 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Cladding Systems Market by Material, Use, Application And Region ...

The firm which supplied cladding panels to Grenfell Tower dismissed a failed fire test on its product as a “rogue result” and kept the report away from customers, the inquiry into the blaze has heard.

A chief contractor on the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower talked about using “Essex boy patter” in an attempt to persuade others involved on the project to use cheaper cladding, the inquiry into the ...

A chief contractor on the refurbishment of grenfell tower talked about using 'Essex boy patter' in an attempt to persuade others involved on the project to use cheaper cladding, the inquiry into the ...

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Panels made from plastic and aluminium were installed on the sides of Grenfell Tower to make it warmer and drier. But the cladding has been blamed for helping flames to spread when fire broke out in ...