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Your documents translated in Verviers
by a specialist in your field

Contracts, maintenance manuals, regulatory files, online shops, loss adjustment reports: every text goes to the linguist who practises the subject, writes towards their mother tongue, then passes under a second pair of eyes. Your terminology stops drifting from one project to the next.

Costed quote in 1 h Systematic cross-check More than 70 languages Original format preserved

2

Linguists per text

2 000

Words per day per translator

70+

Working languages

1 h

To receive your quote

Our fields

The sectors that keep us busy across the district

A generalist delivers words, a specialist delivers an intention. Every file goes to whoever knows the subject.

01

Industry and engineering

Operating manuals, maintenance schedules, safety data sheets, technical specifications. The workshops of the Vesdre valley, the suppliers of the Herve plateau and the sites built around water, from the Gileppe and Eupen dams to the bottling lines in Spa, produce these all year.

02

Food industry and distribution

Specifications, labelling, technical sheets, health certificates, distribution agreements. The Herve plateau sells its cheese and its dairy produce well beyond the three nearby borders.

03

Health and life sciences

Study protocols, informed consent forms, package leaflets, medical expert reports. A vague word costs more here than anywhere else.

04

Legal and insurance

Articles of association, shareholder agreements, general terms, submissions, loss adjustment reports and correspondence with foreign insurers.

05

Tourism, sport and events

Brochures, multilingual websites, press kits, partnership contracts, accreditations. Spa, the High Fens, the wool and fashion heritage centre and the Francorchamps circuit address an audience that reads in German, Dutch and English.

06

Research and teaching

Articles bound for publication, conference abstracts, funding applications, course notes and training material.

Printed files spread across a working table
Terminology over time

A part should not change name between two manuals

On a single isolated page, two competent translators deliver much the same thing. The gap shows up on the third document, when a component described in January acquires a different name in June.

From your very first job, therefore, we open a glossary and a translation memory in your name. A safety instruction written for a workshop in Dison, a data sheet reused six months later for a buyer in Maastricht: the terms stay identical, and segments already translated are not paid for twice at full rate.

That glossary belongs to you. The day you move to another provider, it goes with you.

  • Glossary handed over to the client
  • Translation memory per company
  • Check by a second linguist
  • File returned in its own format
Our method

Four principles that are not up for negotiation

They cost a little time at the outset and remove almost every reworking later on.

Always towards the mother tongue

Nobody ever writes as well as in their own language. That rule holds even when the deadline tightens.

A second linguist checks

The reviser moves segment by segment with the source in view. After three hours on the same text, a translator no longer spots their own slips.

Translation memory

Your earlier texts are reused. Terminology stops drifting and the invoice falls as the memory grows.

File ready to publish

Word, Excel, InDesign, XLIFF, WordPress, Shopify. You receive a usable document, not raw text still waiting to be laid out.

How it runs

From the file received to the file you can publish

A single contact follows you, from the first message to the final revision.

  1. 01

    File analysis

    Actual volume, technical level, format, internal repetitions, segments already sitting in your memory. The price follows from that analysis, never from a rough guess.

  2. 02

    Costed quote in 1 h

    Price per source word, delivery date and a breakdown of the discounts applied to passages already translated for you.

  3. 03

    Translation then check

    A linguist from your sector writes, a second sets the text against the source and aligns it with your glossary.

  4. 04

    Delivery and adjustments

    The file comes back in its original format, and your comments are worked in at no extra charge.

Is there a contract or a manual on your desk?

Send the file over. Within the hour you will know the cost and the profile of the linguist taking it on.

Free and with no obligation Fixed price, no surcharges Answer within 1 hour
Our commitments

What we guarantee

01

The right profile

A clinical protocol does not go to a brochure translator, and a distribution contract does not go to a translator of package leaflets.

02

Glossary handed over

Your lexicon builds up from the first job and is then passed to you. It is yours, with no strings attached.

03

Repetitions deducted

Segments already translated for you are identified and billed at the reduced rate. The quote sets that line out separately.

04

No public tools

A file pasted into a free online translator is a file made public. Yours never go there.

05

Deadline announced, deadline met

At the first sign of delay you are warned in advance, not on the day the work falls due.

06

Confidentiality agreement

Every person involved signs one. If you have your own, we sign it before the first file changes hands.

Good to know

Frequently asked questions

How is the price calculated?

Per source word, with three variables: the language pair, the technical level and the deadline. Repetitions come off the total. No hourly billing and no file handling fee: quote and invoice show the same amount. Indicative ranges appear on the Rates page.

Can you edit the translations inside my site?

Yes, through the XLIFF exports of WordPress and Shopify: structure, links and formatting stay intact. Title tags, meta descriptions and alternative text are translated as well, since they are what carries your visibility in German or Dutch.

What if a chosen term does not suit me?

Say so within fifteen days and the correction is free. Even where it is a house preference rather than an error, the term joins your glossary and is respected from then on.

What turnaround for a large volume?

Reckon 2 000 words per working day per translator, checking included. Beyond that, several linguists share the text around a common glossary, and a final harmonising revision wipes out the differences in style.

Do you use machine translation?

Never without your written agreement. On a large volume with low stakes, post-editing can be a sensible call: we say so openly and you decide.

✦ Free quote within 1 hour

Get your free quote within the hour

Send us your document or your date: firm price, precise deadline, no obligation. You then decide, with everything in front of you.

Sworn translators & interpreters Contractual confidentiality Travel included across the province