Technical translation for industry and logistics
from the capital to Esch-sur-Alzette and Diekirch
Industrial sites, workshops, logistics platforms and construction sites across the Grand Duchy. Converted mining basin, steel, logistics around Findel and Bettembourg: manuals, standards, crew instructions.
2
Reads before handover
24 h
Interpreter on the site
1 h
To have the price
70+
Working languages
What the industry & technical sector sends us most often
The south of the country lived off iron ore, and it keeps a heavy industry that changed without disappearing: Esch-sur-Alzette, Differdange, Dudelange, and at Belval steelworks brownfields turned into a research and teaching district. At the other end of the chain, logistics settled around Findel and the Bettembourg terminal. Between a machine shipped from Germany, a specification written in English and site crews from several countries, the documentation changes language several times a month.
Manuals and maintenance plans
The operating manual for an installation, start-up sequences, fault-finding flowcharts and servicing plans for an imported machine.
Safety at the workstation
Safety data sheets, posted instructions, hot work permits, risk assessments and evacuation procedures.
Conformity and testing
Declarations of conformity, examination reports, test records and technical files an export customer asks for.
Materials and metallurgy
Technical data sheets for steel products, grades, material inspection certificates and customer specifications.
Drawings and parts lists
A bill of components, spare part codes and the text that appears in a drawing title block.
Transport and logistics
Warehouse procedures, transport documents, loading instructions and the customs paperwork travelling with a shipment.
The industry & technical sector in a country where three languages coexist
The south of the country still carries the mark of mining and steel. Esch-sur-Alzette, Differdange, Dudelange and the Belval site have changed face without losing their metallurgical know-how, and metal processing now sits there alongside research and production technology. In the centre and the east, logistics organises a different flow: air freight at Findel ranks among the busiest in Europe, and the multimodal terminal at Bettembourg links road, rail and the ports to the north and south. All of it yields the same raw material for us: technical documentation that has to change language without delaying a shipment or blocking an acceptance test.
The order of languages follows the ground. German serves suppliers and principals from across the Moselle, English carries the standards frameworks and exchanges with head offices, French remains the language of contractual papers, and on sites and in warehouses the crews speak Portuguese, Polish, Romanian or Italian. From the first order a glossary opened in your name stays yours, and the translation memory returns passages already approved: terminology stops drifting, and the cost falls from one project to the next.
Whatever is fixed above a machine, and whatever is said in the five minutes before a shift begins, has to land in the language the crew actually thinks in, pitched at the way they read. Terminology that is technically beyond reproach but opaque to the operator offers no protection to anyone, least of all to the operator.
- Operating documentation and maintenance plan
- Tender documents and technical submission
- Safety data sheet and product standard
- Waybill, customs formalities, batch tracking
When the spoken word counts as much as the written one
On a production site a misunderstanding is paid for in machine hours. Two hours of interpreting costs less than a line stopped the next day.
Taking delivery of equipment
Starting the machine, capacity trials and training the operators, with the maker's technicians standing by.
Safety induction
An outside contractor arrives: site rules explained out loud, with time to answer questions before work starts.
Audit and certification
A visit from a certification body, a regulatory inspection or a customer audit, where the questions go straight to the teams.
Supplier review
Technical meeting with an equipment maker, review of a specification and handling of a non-conformity.
In metallurgy and materials a data sheet carries contractual weight. A steel grade, a strength class or a tolerance rendered wrongly is paid for when the batch is accepted, not at proofreading. Values and units are therefore copied across without conversion, standard references keep their original form, and an illegible character in the source document is reported rather than guessed.
Four steps between your upload and the handover
A single project manager follows your industry & technical file from the first message to the handover, so that no instruction gets lost on the way.
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Send the document as it is
A phone snapshot will do, badly framed included. For a spoken assignment, give us the date, the address of the appointment and the two languages involved.
- 02
Price and deadline inside one hour
You receive the price, the handover date and the route chosen: sworn where an authority requires it, standard in every other case. No commitment attached.
- 03
A linguist from the field takes it on
The text goes to someone who uses industry & technical terminology every day, and a second linguist reads it again before anything leaves us.
- 04
File delivered or interpreter on site
The file reaches you electronically. The stamped copy follows by registered post when the recipient insists on it, and the interpreter turns up at the agreed address.
Instructions to circulate in several languages?
A glossary agreed with your teams on the first assignment, then reused at every update of the documentation.
What changes the moment a industry & technical file reaches us
What is approved is not paid for twice
The translation memory keeps every segment you have approved. An update touching three paragraphs therefore bills three paragraphs, not the whole document.
The glossary belongs to you
A term is only fixed once the person who uses it on the shop floor agrees. The glossary is then delivered to you in plain form and stays your property, even if you hand the work to someone else one day.
The specialist for the field, not the first one free
A specialised text goes to someone who practises in that area. A tight handover date does not suspend the rule: it only shortens the time we have to find the right person.
Confidentiality signed before anything is opened
Everyone involved signs a confidentiality undertaking before reaching your file. Documents sit on infrastructure located inside the European Union and are erased on a written request.
The approved quote is the invoice
Nothing is added later. Revision, layout work and delivery are inside the figure stated at the outset.
No travel charge
Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Differdange, Dudelange, Bettembourg, Mersch, Ettelbruck: the interpreter travels there without the journey being billed.
Frequently asked questions
Do you take our files back in their original format?
Yes. Spreadsheets, word processing documents, layout files, XML or XLIFF: we deliver in the format we received, styling included. The real constraint is how much room the text takes. A drawing label that doubles in length no longer fits its block, and the sheet becomes unusable.
Can a safety data sheet be reworded?
No. For hazard and precautionary statements every language of the Union has an official wording: you copy it, full stop. A rewording, however more elegant, strips the sheet of its regulatory weight. The sixteen-section layout does not move either.
Who translates steel industry documentation?
A translator who has already had this kind of file in hand, then a separate reviser. Send us your existing bilingual documents too, even old ones: a specification already translated in house tells us more about your vocabulary than any terminology database.
Can an interpreter stay on site for several days?
Yes, and for a commissioning or an audit it is the better option: staying the whole week, they build up context and vocabulary instead of rediscovering them each morning. They arrive with their own protective equipment and follow your visitor rules like any subcontractor.
Get your free quote within the hour
A document or a date is all we need. You get the price, the deadline and the form of certification Luxembourg authorities will expect. You decide afterwards.