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Terms of Service
What we do, what a report means, what we need from you, and what happens if a number is disputed.
01The service
What we do, and what we are not
Two testing services, at the Santa Fe Springs laboratory. What follows is mostly about their edges: what the certification covers, and what we are not.
1.1Who you are contracting with
AMALINA Technologies, Inc., at 13564 E. Imperial Hwy, Unit D, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670. These terms apply when you send us a sample, register one, or use this website.
1.2The two services
- Refrigerant Analysis — Purity and contamination testing to AHRI Standard 700.
- Refrigeration Oil Analysis — Condition and wear analysis for chiller and refrigeration compressor oil — mineral, alkylbenzene, POE and PVE.
Refrigerant analysis is performed against AHRI Standard 700. The limits are per refrigerant rather than one generic set, and we publish them so you can see the bar before you pay for the test.
1.3What the certification covers
We are an AHRI Certified® Refrigerant Testing Laboratory. That programme certifies refrigerant testing, and nothing else. It does not cover our oil work, and we do not imply that it does. It also certifies competence rather than independence — it is not a statement about our relationship with anyone.
1.4What we are not
- We are not a reclaimer. We do not recover, reclaim, blend or sell refrigerant, and we do not certify a batch on your behalf. The obligations that sit on a reclaimer or a technician stay with you.
- We are not your compliance filer. A report can support a record you have to keep; keeping it, and filing what has to be filed, is yours.
- We are not giving you engineering, legal or regulatory advice. A result is a measurement. What to do about it — top up, change the oil, pull the charge, reject the load — is your decision, and it is one you are better placed to make than we are.
02What a result claims
A report describes the sample, not the system
This clause decides what a number on our report actually claims, and what it does not. Everything else on this page is ordinary contract language.
2.1The sample as received
A report states what we measured in the material that arrived in the container you sent, as it was when we analysed it. That is the whole of what it certifies.
It is not a statement about the chiller, the recovery tank, the drum or the batch the sample came out of. Whether it represents any of those depends on how it was taken, and we were not there. Two samples drawn from the same tank ten minutes apart can differ if one came off the vapour side; a cylinder that carried something else last month can put its own history into your result.
2.2Two places this bites hardest
- Non-condensables. That measurement is defined on a vapour-phase sample at a stated temperature. If the source temperature at the time of sampling was not recorded, or the draw was not taken the way the method requires, the figure describes what was in the container and not what was in the system.
- Batch representation. A single sample stands for a batch only if a written sampling plan says how. Unless we have agreed one with you, we make no claim that your sample represents anything beyond itself.
2.3Conformance is against a stated edition
Where a report says a sample meets AHRI Standard 700, it means the characteristics we measured met the limits for that refrigerant in the edition named on the report. Editions differ — the exemption list for non-condensables is not the same in all of them — so the edition is part of the statement, not a footnote to it.
Any advisory comment we add beyond the specification — a note that a value is trending, a service-limit observation on an oil report — is exactly that. It is our opinion, offered because it is useful, and it is not a conformance statement.
03Your side
Sampling and declaration are yours
We publish the procedures in full rather than burying them in a PDF, because the quality of a result is decided before the cylinder leaves your site.
3.1Taking the sample
You are responsible for how the sample is taken and for the container it arrives in. Follow the published procedure: draw from the liquid valve, into a cylinder rated at 400 psi that has been evacuated to 50 microns or better, and fill to 75–80% — around 350 g.
For oil, use a borosilicate graduated glass sample bottle. POE and Solest oils absorb moisture quickly, even in a sealed bottle. Send samples promptly.
If a sample arrives in a condition we cannot test — too little material, a container we cannot safely open, contamination from the container itself — we will tell you rather than run it and report a number we do not believe.
The full procedures →3.2What you declare
You are responsible for the accuracy of what you tell us: the refrigerant or oil type, the equipment it came from, and anything you know about how the material was handled.
This is not paperwork. What you declare selects the limits your sample is judged against, and those limits are not one generic set — R-11 and R-123 carry their own water limit and are not subject to the non-condensables determination at all, and a blend is judged on a composition window rather than on purity. Declare the wrong fluid and the result is measured accurately against the wrong bar.
Tell us if you know or suspect a sample is mixed, contaminated, flammable, or not what the cylinder says it is. It changes how we handle it, and it is a safety matter before it is an analytical one.
3.3Getting it to us
Packing, labelling and shipping the sample in line with the rules that apply to the material is yours. We are not the shipper of record and we cannot be. If a carrier will not take it, that is between you and the carrier.
3.4Ownership and disposal of the sample
The material you send remains yours. What happens to what is left after the test — held, returned at your cost, or disposed of — has not been written down, and we are not going to state it here until it has been.
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04Reports
Yours to use, not to edit
A report is a record. It is worth something precisely because the version you hold and the version we issued are the same document.
4.1The report is yours
We issue it to the customer who submitted the sample. Use it in your own business: give it to your customer, put it in a compliance file, send it with the cylinder, show it to a buyer. You do not need our permission for any of that.
We treat it as confidential on our side. The privacy policy sets out who sees a result and states plainly that results on third-party samples are not shared with Chiller Services Refrigerants.
4.2Reproduce it whole
Reproduce a report in full, or not at all. Do not quote one line of it out of a document that also carries the conditions that line depends on — the refrigerant tested, the edition applied, the date, the notes. A single characteristic lifted out of a report is not a result, it is a number.
4.3Do not alter it
Our reports carry a no-alteration notice on their face. This clause states the rule separately and in plainer words: changing a released report — a value, a date, a name, a verdict — and passing it off as ours is not a disagreement about a result. It is a different document with our name on it.
If something on a report is wrong, tell us and we will issue a correction as a new revision that names the one it replaces. That is the mechanism. There is no version of this where editing the file is the answer.
4.4Checking a report is real
If you have been handed a report of ours by somebody else and you want to know whether it is the document we issued, ask us. Call (562) 404-9955 or email info@amalinatechnologies.com with the report number.
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05Ordering
How work is agreed
5.1Registering is not a contract yet
Registering a sample on this website tells us it is coming. We are engaged when we accept the work — in writing, or by booking the sample in and starting it.
Nothing on this website is a price quotation or an offer of terms. What you pay is what we quote you for the work in question, before it starts.
5.2Schedule
We do not publish a turnaround time on this website. The schedule for your work is what we tell you when we accept it, and we would rather commit to one date in writing than advertise a figure to everybody. If a sample is going to be late, you will hear it from us first.
5.3Cancelling
Tell us before a sample is run and there is nothing to pay for the analysis. Once it is on the bench, the work has been done whatever the result says.
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06Liability
What we stand behind, and what we do not
Written in plain terms on purpose. A limitation clause that has to be decoded is a clause a customer has not really agreed to.
| The situation | Where it sits |
|---|---|
| We measured a characteristic incorrectly, or reported a value we did not measure | Ours. We re-run the sample where material remains, issue a corrected revision, and refund the fee for that test. |
| The sample was drawn the wrong way, from the wrong place, or from a contaminated container | Yours. See clause 2 — the report describes what arrived. |
| The fluid was declared as something it was not, so the wrong limits were applied | Yours. See clause 3.2 — what you declare selects the limits. |
| A decision made off the back of a correct result — a charge accepted, a batch sold, a compressor left in service | Yours. A measurement is not a recommendation. |
| Loss of production, downtime, replacement refrigerant, lost sale, lost profit, a downstream claim | Excluded. These are consequential losses and we do not carry them. |
6.1The cap — not set
A ceiling on what the laboratory can be liable for is the normal shape of a testing contract, and this draft leaves that shape visible without filling it in. No cap has been agreed, so none is stated here and none is in force.
Whatever is agreed will not limit anything the law does not allow us to limit — fraud, wilful misconduct, or a liability that cannot be excluded under California law.
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6.2What we do warrant
That the work is done with the care and skill of a competent testing laboratory, using the methods the standard specifies, by people qualified to run them.
Beyond that we make no warranty that a result will suit a particular purpose of yours, or that material passing our test will behave in any particular way in your equipment. We do not know your equipment.
07If you disagree
How a disputed result is handled
A result can be disputed, and there is usually money attached to the answer. The route is set out here in advance rather than negotiated afterwards.
01
Tell us
Contact us with the report number and what you think is wrong. Do not edit the report and do not circulate an amended copy while the question is open.
02
We review the record
We go back to the sample record, the run, and the calculation, and we tell you what we find — including if we find nothing.
03
Re-test where possible
If material remains, we re-run it. A correction is issued as a new revision naming the one it replaces; the original is never quietly replaced.
04
Second laboratory
Where a portion of your sample has been retained, it can go to another AHRI Certified® laboratory at your election and cost, with both results filed side by side.
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08The rest
Ownership, governing law, and changes
8.1What belongs to whom
Your sample, your result and your report are yours. The underlying laboratory records, our report format, our methods and this website’s text and tables are ours.
AHRI Certified®and AHRI Standard 700 belong to the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute. The limits we publish are a compilation from published sources — the standard itself is AHRI’s, and the federally incorporated text is public. We claim the compilation and its presentation, not the standard.
8.2Using this website
Read it, print it, quote it with attribution. Do not scrape it wholesale to republish as your own, and do not present our published limit tables as another laboratory’s work. If you want to reference the tables, link to them — they will stay current, and a copy will not.
8.3Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The laboratory is in Los Angeles County, and that is where any court proceeding would be brought.
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8.4If a clause fails
If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands. A term we do not enforce on one occasion is not a term we have given up.
8.5The whole agreement
These terms, our quotation for the specific work, and the report we issue are the agreement between us. If we have signed a separate written agreement with you, that one wins wherever the two differ.
8.6Changes
We may update these terms. The version that applies to your work is the one in force when we accepted it — we do not apply a new term backwards to a sample already on the bench.
Until they are adopted, these are a draft and the banner at the top of this page stays where it is.
8.7Questions
Ask before you send a sample rather than after. info@amalinatechnologies.com or (562) 404-9955.
Effective date — set on adoption