Technical translation services for manufacturers
Your documentation is heading to a new market? And it has to be right the first time?
We know the feeling. For years we have been translating user manuals, technical files and safety data sheets for the people who answer for them: documentation engineers, export managers, design engineers, DTP coordinators. They know this work is not about “translating text”. It is about a Czech service technician, a German fitter and a Polish operator reading the same thing and doing the same thing. Exactly the same thing.
That is why we work like a documentation team, not a do-everything agency: terminology under control, a translation memory of every previous version of your document, and a person who understands how the machine works.
What we translate
User and installation manuals. Technical files and product documentation. Safety data sheets (SDS). Specifications and drawing callouts. Machinery documentation for CE marking under the EU Machinery Regulation. Device and industrial software interfaces. Parts catalogues. Technical e-learning for operators.
The format stays 1:1. We work directly in InDesign files, XML, CAD exports and PDFs, so your document comes back ready to print or publish, not “ready to be re-typeset”.
Languages: your gateway to European markets
Selling into Europe is our home field. We cover all European languages in one process, with one terminology discipline. Polish and Czech are our native languages: our team lives on the Polish-Czech border and works in both every day. If your product ships to Central Europe, you get documentation the local service engineer cannot tell from an original.
Our most frequent pairs: English and German, both directions.
How we work: four steps of quality control
We come from a school where translation quality is graded by error severity: critical, major, minor. A critical error is one that distorts the meaning of the source or changes how the product is used. Our whole process is built so that this kind of error has no way through:
- A specialist translator. Someone who knows the field, not a “general linguist”. Terminology comes from the glossary and translation memory of your previous projects. First project with us? We build them for you from scratch. That is your asset: it works for every future version of your documentation and lowers its cost.
- Self-review. The translator checks their own work for accuracy, consistency and terminology before passing it on.
- Independent revision. A second specialist reads the whole text separately: accuracy, consistency, style.
- Tool-based QA. Numbers, tags, segmentation and formatting checked with tools like Xbench, because in technical documentation a typo in a pressure value is not a typo. It is a product defect.
We brought this discipline from years of work for Crestec, the Japanese documentation company whose quality school you have already met if you have ever opened the manual of a major electronics brand. Twenty-plus years, still the same school.
What technical translation costs
The honest answer: less than one held container or one mislabelled production run. We charge per source word, and repetitions from your translation memory cost a fraction of the rate. For documentation that lives in versions (v1.0, v1.1, a new issue after a standard changes), that is usually the biggest saving on the invoice. You will find the specifics in our pricing, and a quote for your document, with a real deadline, within 24 hours.
Who we work for
Machinery and equipment manufacturers. Medical device companies whose documentation falls under the EU MDR. E-commerce businesses with technical product catalogues. Exporters across Europe and North America entering EU markets, remotely and in any time zone that suits your project.
Frequently asked questions
What makes technical translation different from regular translation?
Domain knowledge and discipline. The translator has to know the terminology and the realities of your industry, and the process has to guard consistency with previous versions of your documentation, compliance with standards and formatting, not just linguistic correctness.
Can you translate manuals from PDF or scans?
Yes. We rebuild the document into an editable format, translate it and deliver it in a 1:1 layout with the original.
How do you count repetitions?
The translation memory detects segments we have already translated, and you pay a fraction of the rate for them. With documentation updates, that is often most of the text.
Do you provide certified translations of technical documents?
Yes, including sworn translations where EU authorities require them, most often for the Polish and Czech pair.
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