All categories · July 2026

Four makers on this benchmark did not stay the same company. Only one of those is an insolvency.

A product warranty is not a property of the product. It is a claim against a company, for 10 to 25 years, and it is worth whatever that company is worth when you make it. Seven active scorecards here carry a corporate note. They describe four different situations, and collapsing them into one word costs a buyer real information.

The proportion first

Seven of 122. The exception, not the category.

Across the active catalogue, 7 products carry a corporate or continuity note and 115 do not. Four of the seven relate to a completed cessation event, and three to a company still trading. Naming them is not a claim that the sector is fragile. It is the opposite: the note exists precisely because it is unusual enough to be worth stating.

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Active scorecards carrying a corporate note

No note115

94% of the active catalogue

Carries a note7

4 cessation events, 3 still trading

Chart data

Series	Value	Note
No note	115	94% of the active catalogue
Carries a note	7	4 cessation events, 3 still trading

The four outcomes

A liquidation, a court process, an exit, and a loss are four different answers.

What the record shows

Four situations a buyer is currently told to treat as one

1. 01
   Liquidation

   Meyer Burger's German operations entered insolvency in 2025 and its US manufacturing assets were sold. Bankruptcy was opened over Meyer Burger (Switzerland) AG on 23 June 2026 and the entity is in liquidation. No public warranty-servicing arrangement was located.

2. 02
   Court-supervised restructuring

   Maxeon has been under judicial management by order of the Singapore High Court since 29 May 2026. A restructuring is not a closure, and judicial managers are appointed to preserve value. What it does mean is that claims would be handled by an estate rather than by an ordinary trading company.

3. 03
   Category exit

   Panasonic discontinued its US solar and battery storage business. Its own support service states that it continues to support existing customers and active product warranties, including claims and transfers. A solvent company leaving a market is not a failing one, and the two are routinely confused.

4. 04
   Trading, with losses reported

   SolarEdge reported a loss in Q1 2026 while generating positive operating cash flow and holding cash net of debt. It remains listed and operational. One reporting period is not a trend, and a loss can reflect an investment cycle as readily as a decline.

The distinction that costs the most

An exit is not an insolvency, and a restructuring is not a closure.

The Panasonic case is the clearest illustration. A company that stops selling into a market has made a commercial decision, and it can go on honouring what it already sold. The company still exists, it still has a balance sheet, and in this instance it says publicly that claims and transfers continue. Read as "Panasonic failed", that becomes a reason to avoid a product whose warranty position is, on the public record, intact.

Australian administration law makes the same point from the other direction. Redback Technologies Holdings entered a deed of company arrangement in 2024 after voluntary administration. A deed is a mechanism for continuing to trade, not for closing. Its Australian registration and installer support portal were active when rechecked in July 2026. What the public record does not establish is how pre-administration long-term warranty liabilities are backed, and that gap is the useful thing to tell a buyer.

What a buyer can actually do

Ask which entity is on the contract, not whether the brand is healthy.

Brand health is not a question a buyer can answer, and it is not one this publication tries to answer either. The answerable questions are narrower. Which legal entity issues the warranty, and is it the one selling to you or an overseas parent. Who services a claim in this market, and are they still trading. Is the obligation backed by anything beyond the manufacturer, such as an insurance-backed policy or a local distributor undertaking. Those have documentable answers, and a retailer who cannot give them has told you something.

None of this is a reason to buy or avoid any product named here, and none of it changes a score. Scores on this site come from the published rubric, and no corporate figure is an input to any of them. The note exists so that a reader weighing a 25-year promise can see the same public record we can, and reach their own view of it.

Corporate notes are reviewed on a dated cycle and state sourced facts without asserting a conclusion. Nothing here is financial, legal or investment advice. Circumstances change: check the current position before relying on any of it.

Sourcescourt, regulator and company records

• Meyer Burger (Switzerland) AG company record, moneyhouse.ch. Bankruptcy opened 23 June 2026; entity in liquidation. German insolvency and the sale of US manufacturing assets are recorded on the product scorecard. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
• Maxeon Solar Technologies, Ltd., SEC filing dated 29 June 2026, sec.gov. Judicial management ordered by the High Court of Singapore on 29 May 2026. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
• Panasonic North America solar support service, solar.na.panasonic.com. Statement that support for existing customers and active product warranties, including claims and transfers, continues after the category exit. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
• Redback Technologies Holdings Pty Ltd, ASIC published notices, publishednotices.asic.gov.au. Deed of company arrangement following voluntary administration, 2024. Australian registration and installer support portal rechecked July 2026. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
• SolarEdge Technologies, first quarter 2026 financial results, investors.solaredge.com. Reported loss, positive operating cash flow and cash net of debt. Read alongside our reading of the same filing. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
• Product counts from the published review.solar dataset, 31 July 2026: 122 active products, 7 carrying a corporate note. See the methodology for why no corporate figure is an input to any score.