Juliet Linderman Jason Dearen

Juliet Linderman Jason Dearen

July 20, 2017 | Daily Business Review

US Hotel, NFL Arena May Sport Grenfell Tower Flammable Panels

In promotional brochures, a U.S. company boasted of the "stunning visual effect" its shimmering aluminum panels created in an NFL stadium, an Alaskan high school and a luxury hotel along Baltimore's Inner Harbor that "soars 33 stories into the air." Those same panels — Reynobond composite material with a polyethylene core — also were used in the Grenfell Tower apartment building in London. British authorities say they're investigating whether the panels helped spread the blaze that ripped across the building's outer walls, killing at least 80 people.

By Juliet Linderman, Jason Dearen and Jeff Martin

15 minute read