Panasonic Announce 25-year Product Guarantee for HIT®

Panasonic, a global manufacturer of high-efficiency solar modules, will deliver significantly greater quality assurance to customers with a new 25-year product guarantee for its solar module HIT® series.

Panasonic, a global manufacturer of high-efficiency solar modules, will deliver significantly greater quality assurance to customers with a new 25-year product guarantee for its solar module HIT® series.


The news represents a 10-year upgrade on Panasonics previous product guarantee of 15 years and applies to all HIT® modules installed from 2017. As part of the guarantee extension, Panasonic is introducing an online customer signup procedure, allowing Panasonic to provide customers with a personalised guarantee certificate for their specific installation and solar system characteristics.

"Todays 25-year product guarantee announcement delivers on our commitment to manufacture and supply solar modules of the highest reliability and quality for our growing European customer base," stated Daniel Roca, Senior Business Developer at Panasonic. "Since introducing HIT® in 1997, the product has forged a reputation of excellent reliability and quality manufacturing standards. This guarantee extension consolidates this reputation, providing European installers and consumers with full confidence and peace of mind when installing our high performance modules in their solar systems."

The extension comes during a milestone year for Panasonic who are celebrating 20 years manufacturing solar module HIT®. Since launching the high performance solar module series, the company has supplied over 1 billion cells worldwide and 18 million modules, providing consumers, businesses and institutions with clean, reliable solar energy.

About Panasonic
Panasonic Corporation is a worldwide leader in the development of diverse electronics technologies and solutions for customers in the consumer electronics, housing, automotive, enterprise solutions and device industries. Since its founding in 1918, the company has expanded globally and now operates 474 subsidiaries and 94 associated companies worldwide, recording consolidated net sales of 7.553 trillion yen for the year ended March 31, 2016. Committed to pursuing new value through innovation across divisional lines, the company uses its technologies to create a better life and a better world for its customers. To learn more about Panasonic: http://www.panasonic.com/global.


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Impress Labs (for Panasonic):
Nick Richardson
Impress Labs
+49 7950 180161
nick@impresslabs.com

Panasonic:
Marlene Zapf
Panasonic Eco Solutions Europe
+49 89 45354-2549
marlene.zapf@eu.panasonic.com



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