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About this service

Industrial manufacturing documentation translation is where error consequences are most direct. A safety instruction that is ambiguous in translation creates an accident risk. A CE documentation package that does not meet the linguistic requirements of the EU Machinery Directive fails market entry. A maintenance procedure that omits a step due to translation compression causes equipment damage or warranty claims. This is not a context where acceptable quality means approximate quality.

Lombardy is Italy's most industrialised region, and Corsico sits within it. Our proximity to the manufacturing and industrial heartland of northern Italy is not incidental to our work in this sector. We understand the types of products, the certification pathways, and the market destinations that characterise the manufacturing output of this region.

Technical documentation translation assignments go to translators with engineering or manufacturing backgrounds in the relevant domain. Mechanical equipment manuals go to mechanical engineers. Electrical installation guides go to someone with electrical engineering background. The translator needs to understand what the procedure or component actually does in order to translate it correctly. We do not assign technical documentation to linguists with general technical vocabulary.

CE marking documentation under EU directives has specific content requirements and prescribed language conventions that vary by directive and product category. The EU Declaration of Conformity must be drafted in the language of the destination market. The instructions for use have mandatory content requirements under the applicable directive. We work with these regulatory requirements as part of the translation brief, not as an afterthought.