Here at ercol furniture Ltd, we make beautiful domestic furniture from our purpose-built showroom factory nestled in the heart of the Chiltern Hills. We want to continue improving the training we provide to all our craftsmen and women and we use Workplace Translation to update and translate Health & Safety and training documents.

Having a variety of document formats and types to translate meant we wanted a service that was accurate, efficient and reliable. As we don’t know what the future brings, we also wanted to develop a relationship with the provider of the service. Workplace Translation has not only met, but exceeded all of my expectations. They have provided the best service by far of all translation firms that we have tried.

Roy GravesOperations Manager, ercol furniture Ltd

Workplace Translation provides us with excellent support for our Polish workers. The quality of their translation work, coupled with extremely competitive prices and on-time delivery has meant that they are a key supplier we know we can rely on.

Mick ShawExtrusion Manager at a UK business

The translation of our Health & Safety and HR documents and the delivery of Health & Safety training in the employee’s native language has improved the communication with our employees and helped us avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.

Bill StewartManaging Director at a UK business

The translation and delivery of the induction presentation contributed towards creating a safer working environment and gave all new starters the opportunity to receive a comprehensive introduction into the role of a Fox’s Biscuits employee.

Alison CarruthersTraining and Development Manager, Fox’s Biscuits

Our partnership with Workplace Translation and their state of the art website translation tools and methods have been vital to our becoming a truly international sales and ecommerce company.

Clive DaviesManaging Director at Premier Equine

Case study: SIA Group, Frauenfeld, Germany
Saving Antonia £17,000 on translation costs!

Background information

The sia Group based in Frauenfeld ranks amongst the world’s top 3 suppliers of flexible abrasives. It develops, manufacturers and markets complete abrasive systems tailored to specific requirements and applications for surface preparation and finishing of all kinds. This commitment has made abrasive processes into true surface technologies. Employing approximately 1, 250 people worldwide, sia Abrasives generates more than 90% of its sales outside Switzerland.

Requirements

sia Fibral Ltd were previously restricted to the use of a company nominated by their Head Office in Switzerland. Having been given the freedom to source local translation services, Antonia Ketteringham, Marketing Assistant found Workplace Translation (through Google) and employed us to translate their corporate brochure from English to French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Chinese-Mandarin all to be delivered in Adobe DTP, Indesign.

Solution

Utilising the latest software and supplying highly qualified linguists with in-depth industry knowledge and expertise ensured the delivery of quality and accurate brochure translations with huge cost savings to the customer. The projects were delivered in less than two weeks!

Antonia was very pleased, especially as we had saved the company over £17,000. Our prices and quality of service proved to be much better value.

Case study: Premier Equine, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Helping the company become truly international

Background information

Premier Equine is an international brand supplying products to riders, horses and professionals involved in equestrian sport. The company’s core values are innovation, tradition and perfection and it specialises in products to protect and to prevent injuries.

Requirements

In order to increase their reach into European markets, the team at Premier Equine decided to have the website translated into 5 languages. With thousands of quality products, there were large volumes of product descriptions that needed translating, along with the payment portal and general information on the website. Having experienced restrictions and limits with its previous partner, Clive and Rachel at Premier Equine contacted Workplace Translation for a quote for translating the website.

Solution

Workplace Translation made use of a specialist website translation tools to quickly assess the number of words and put a detailed quotation together. Once the go-ahead was given, the text was exported into state of the art software that ensures consistency and makes the translation workflow more efficient. A team of expert translators and proof readers worked on the files, which were then exported and uploaded to our website tool to generate a preview for Premier Equine. Due to the fact that the products and product descriptions are being constantly updated, Workplace Translation liaised with Premier Equine to find the best way for information about these products to be regularly made available in all the target languages.

Workplace Translation also arranged for the translated websites to be hosted in the countries in question, which aids organic optimisation without the need for expensive SEO work. The number of visitors to Premier Equine’s websites has increased from 4,000 per month when first published (visitors that were largely already happy Premier Equine customers) up to 40,000 per month after one year – thousands of new customers!