Since the Grenfell fire, repairs have been required to buildings with unsafe cladding. This created an affordability crisis with many flat-owners facing large bills for renovations. The government has ...

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Hoover Treated Wood Products acquires Arconic Architectural Products, LLC — a manufacturer of aluminum cladding products. The acquisition marks Hoover's entry into the exterior aluminum cladding ...

Plans to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding, including target dates for making buildings safe and tougher penalties for refusing to act, have been announced by ministers. Under the plans, ...

North America Cladding Systems Market was valued at US$ 66.1 billion in 2023 and is projected to attain a market size of US$ 123.6 billion by 2032 at a CAGR of 7.21% during the forecast period ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Work to make England’s multistorey residential buildings safe from dangerous cladding could cost up to £22.4bn, ...

Sara Robertson used to wake up in the middle of the night thinking that she heard a fire alarm and her apartment was going to burn down. Ms Robertson said the unknown cost of dealing with flammable ...

It took just 90 minutes for fire to race up 20 storeys of the Grenfell Tower in June 2017, killing 72 people. Last month, a cigarette sparked a blaze that quickly jumped five floors of Melbourne's ...

The type of siding or "cladding" used on the Grenfell Tower in London — and suspected of feeding the massive fire that killed dozens of residents — is not allowed on the exterior of tall buildings ...

North Korea uses thermal cladding on important facilities to block radiation of heat and prevent heat loss. The regime ...

A popular cladding brand failed a safety test this week - despite being seen as so fire-safe that it is permitted on tall buildings without any extra tests, Newsnight has learned. Cladding removed for ...