Grenfell insulation products maker sold six years after deadly fire

Photo of the Grenfell Tower in west London a year after the fire that cost 72 lives

France’s Saint-Gobain has agreed to sell one of the companies implicated in London’s fatal Grenfell Tower fire six years ago.

The Paris-listed building materials group will sell its majority stake in Celotex to Soprema, a company based in England, according to a stock exchange filing. Celotex made insulation used on Grenfell — called RS5000 — which was found to have fueled the blaze on June 14 in 2017 that killed 72 people.