Class B-rated Trespa HPL cladding currently covers 40% of Hockmore Tower’s façade. The council will replace it with non-combustible sheet aluminium, which covers the rest of the building. The council ...

HPL (High Pressure Laminate ... façades or interior wall cladding to exterior façade details or laboratory work surfaces. The panels are sold in multiple sheet sizes and thicknesses to give ...

Instead of ACM cladding, it had HPL, or high-pressure laminate - typically sheets of wood or paper joined together by a resin. HPL panels were used on windows in Lakanal House, a building in south ...

The results not only prove HPL cladding systems are not up to the required standard but the alarming speed at which flames could spread on a residential building block. Identical tests carried ...

It said HPL cladding should still be removed when combined with combustible insulation. The Fire Protection Association (FPA), which carried out the test, said last week that all combustible cladding ...

Fire safety experts have called for all HPL cladding to be “urgently” removed as they raised major concerns with a parliamentary committee over the laboratory tests of the material.

The test carried out on High Pressure Laminate (HPL) cladding resulted in flames ripping through the test structure in minutes, failing the safety assessment by a large margin. While the exact ...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on Thursday slipped out details of how some types of high pressure laminate (HPL) cladding should be stripped from buildings. Until now ...

Instead of ACM cladding, it had HPL, or high-pressure laminate - typically sheets of wood or paper joined together by a resin. HPL panels were used on windows in Lakanal House, a building in south ...