A company criticised at the Grenfell Tower inquiry over misleading fire safety claims sits on a construction industry integrity group.
Kingspan, whose K15 foam insulation was fitted on the London tower block, has been accused at the public inquiry of marketing “lethally combustible materials” as safe for high-rise buildings.
The boards were part of cladding that caught fire at Grenfell in June 2017, when 72 people died.
Kirsch Bowker, head of marketing at Kingspan Facades, is on a “marketing integrity group” created by the Construction Products Association after the fire. The group is drawing up a code of conduct to ensure that product information is “clear, accurate, up-to-date, accessible and unambiguous”.
Staff at Kingspan joked in 2016 that claims that product was safe were “all lies”.
