Get a torque figure wrong and somebody gets hurt. We work on operating manuals, safety data sheets, installation guides, engineering drawings, calibration certificates, declarations of conformity, structural survey reports, patent specifications and the technical annexes that sit inside a tender.
Files come back in the format you sent, checked by a second specialist, and certified where a regulator or an authority needs that. Manufacturers, engineering consultancies, importers, notified bodies and councils all use the results as delivered. Quotes are word based, with repeated content across a document set counted only once.
Engineers use these documents with a tool in hand, so the wording has to be right. A clearance is not a tolerance and a fastener is not a fixing. Manuals, method statements and commissioning guides go to linguists who have worked in that field.
Manufacturers care about the page as much as the words. We leave millimetres, newton metres and bar exactly as engineered, because converting them adds rounding nobody asked for. Callouts are moved back to the right part and tables are rebuilt so nothing breaks.
Importers need paperwork a regulator will accept. Declarations of conformity, safety data sheets and technical files go in front of notified bodies. We match hazard statements to the official wording for that market and add certification where an authority asks for it.
Tell us the market, the standard you are working to and whether a certified version is needed for a regulator. You get a word count breakdown, a turnaround estimate and a separate figure for rebuilding drawings and tables. Repeated content across a manual set is discounted first.
Three stages, with one project manager and one lead linguist per language. Engineering clients sending regular work keep the same pair, which is how terminology stays stable across a product range.
Editable source files work best, along with any glossary, previous manual or parts list you already hold. Tell us the destination market and the standard involved, since a machine bound for one country may need wording another would reject.
You get a word count figure per language, plus a separate line for drawing and table work. This is also where we agree the term list, so a bracket, a bracket assembly and a mounting bracket do not end up as the same word in the finished manual.
A second specialist reads the work against the source, then the layout is checked page by page. You get the files in their original format, with a signed certificate attached where an authority or a notified body has asked for one.
Send editable source files
Word count per language
Term list agreed first
Units left as engineered
Callouts realigned
Design data kept secure
German, Japanese, Italian and Korean dominate machinery work, while Chinese and Turkish arrive with construction and survey reports. Black Country manufacturers send this work to our certified translation services in Wolverhampton week after week.
Somebody has to act on these documents, often while holding a tool. Below are the files that reach our certified document translation team most often, and what rests on getting each one right.
An engineer follows these step by step, often under pressure. Sequence, warnings and part references have to survive the move without a single item drifting out of order.
Hazard and precautionary statements are set wording under law, not free text. They are matched to the official phrasing for the market rather than paraphrased into something similar.
Declarations of conformity, test reports and technical files go in front of notified bodies. A certified version is usually required rather than merely helpful.
Labels sit in tight boxes and callouts point at specific features. Text that grows by a third in German has to be handled, not squeezed until nobody can read it.
Structural assessments and risk reports prepared abroad are read here by councils, insurers and immigration caseworkers. Engineering findings and legal references sit side by side.
Claim wording decides the width of the protection. Nothing is tidied, shortened or made to read more naturally, because in a patent the awkward phrasing is often deliberate.
Site teams work from these with the plant already delivered. Ambiguity costs a day of downtime, so instructions are written to be followed rather than admired.
Auditors check the instrument, the date, the tolerance and the signature. All four are reproduced exactly, along with the issuing laboratory's accreditation details.
Bids abroad fail on the technical schedule more often than on price. These run to fixed portal deadlines, so we plan backwards from the closing hour.
Site paperwork has to be understood by everyone holding it, including crews arriving from another country. Clarity beats elegance every time on this material.
Procedures, work instructions and audit records travel between sites in different countries. Consistent wording across the set matters more than polish on any single page.
Welding tickets, electrical qualifications and plant operator cards are checked before anyone works on site, usually alongside a driving licence translation for anyone moving plant. Categories and expiry dates are what get read.
Machine builders shipping into new markets, importers preparing a technical file, and site managers waiting on a method statement before crews arrive. Their comments run here as written, from workshops and offices across Britain, because this work is judged on whether it worked.