The Dow Chemical Co. has agreed to purchase the assets of the Celotex Corp.'s rigid foam insulation business. The purchase includes all Celotex brand polyisocyanurate insulation products for ...

The company that made the insulation for use on Grenfell Tower encouraged its product manager to lie to customers about “deliberately misleading” testing that purported to make it suitable for use on ...

Insulation boards fitted to the outside of Grenfell Tower gave off highly toxic hydrogen cyanide gas which may have contributed to the deaths of some of the 79 confirmed victims. Fire toxicity experts ...

Cladding installer says testing body was checking test rig the ‘whole time’ Celotex made no attempt to conceal the rigging of a fire test on an insulation product used on Grenfell Tower’s ...

Cyanide gas released as insulation boards burned may have contributed to deaths at Grenfell Tower. Experts said the thermal lining, fitted in the cladding process, is said to give off the deadly gas ...

Celotex, which employs 220 staff at its Hadleigh production site, is planning to build a £20million plant at Eggborough, near Selby. In 2012, the fast-growing firm was snapped up by French building ...

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