Food for thought.
The food industry is certainly not flavour of the month with insurers but, despite concerns over composite panels and the resulting fire hazards, Alan Tickner urges the industry to work up an appetite for risk.
Sandwich panels, or more precisely metal-faced insulated compositepanels, have featured in many major fire losses throughout the late 1990s
and through the start of this century. As a result, any
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