Document translation in Wavre
entrusted to a specialist in the field
Regulatory dossiers, study protocols, contracts, manufacturing procedures, online shops: the text goes to a linguist writing into their own language, then passes under a second pair of eyes, and keeps your terminology from one project to the next.
2
Linguists per document
2 000
Words per day and per translator
70+
Working languages
1 h
For your quote
The files that fill our weeks
The file goes to the linguist who knows the subject. Without that knowledge you get accurate words and approximate meaning.
Industry and engineering
Manufacturing procedures, maintenance schedules, safety data sheets, technical specifications. The business parks of Wavre Nord and Nivelles produce them all year round.
Transport and logistics
Consignment notes, customs declarations, commission agreements, general conditions of carriage. Along the E411, paperwork travels as much as the pallets do.
Pharmaceuticals and life sciences
Regulatory dossiers, clinical trial protocols, informed consent forms, package leaflets, manufacturing procedures. The pharmaceutical and biotech cluster of Walloon Brabant works on texts where approximation costs dearly.
Legal and contractual
Shareholder agreements, articles of association, commercial leases, general terms, and the submissions filed in a case together with their annexes.
Retail and online sales
Catalogues, product sheets, press releases, multilingual shops. A few kilometres from the language border, Dutch is not a nicety: it is a market.
Research and teaching
Papers submitted for publication, conference abstracts, funding applications, course material. Louvain-la-Neuve and its science park supply a steady share of this.
Wording that stops drifting between files
Take any single page and two good translators will deliver much the same thing. The gap opens on the third document, when a process step, a component or a job title starts changing name.
From your first delivery onwards your company therefore has a glossary and a translation memory of its own. A manufacturing procedure written in January, a leaflet revisited in September: the wording holds, and whatever has already been translated does not come back at full rate.
The glossary belongs to you. Should you move elsewhere one day, it moves with you.
- Glossary handed to the client
- Translation memory per company
- A second linguist reviews
- File returned in its original format
Four house rules
A little time invested at the outset, and rework all but disappears afterwards.
Always into the mother tongue
A translator produces their best text in their own language and nowhere else. Even on a short deadline we do not bend that rule.
Revision by a second linguist
A second linguist goes through the text against the original, segment by segment. After a few hours on a file, nobody spots their own approximations any more.
Translation memory
What you had us translate before becomes the base for the files that follow. The vocabulary stops drifting and the invoice falls project after project.
Immediately usable file
Word, Excel, InDesign, XLIFF, WordPress, Shopify: the file comes back in a state where it can be published, with no reformatting.
How a translation job unfolds
One person follows the file, from the request for a quote to delivery.
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Analysis of the file
We look at the real volume, the technical content, the format, the internal repetitions and what your memory already holds. The price comes out of that, never from a rough guess.
- 02
Firm quote within 1 h
You receive a rate per source word, a delivery date, and the tally of passages already translated for you, discount included.
- 03
Translation, then cross-checking
A linguist from your sector writes. A second goes over the whole thing, verifies the figures and aligns the wording with your glossary.
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Delivery and adjustments
The file comes back in the state you entrusted it to us, formatting included. Your comments are incorporated at no extra charge.
A regulatory dossier or a contract to translate?
Forward the document and the cost, along with the name of the field the linguist works in, reaches you within sixty minutes.
What we guarantee on every file
The right linguist
A clinical trial protocol and a sales brochure do not go to the same person. We do not mix the two up.
Glossary handed over
The lexicon grows from the first file onwards, then it is delivered to you. It is yours to use freely.
Repetitions deducted
Whatever you had us translate before comes back at a reduced rate. The line appears on the quote.
No public tools
Pasting a document into a free online translator amounts to publishing it. Yours never end up there.
Deadline announced, deadline met
If a deadline risks slipping, you hear about it during the translation, not on the morning of delivery.
Confidentiality agreement
All our contributors sign one. And if your company has its own, we sign it before the first file moves.
Frequently asked questions
How do you calculate the price?
The calculation runs on the source word. Three elements make it move: the language pair, the technical difficulty and the deadline. Repetitions are deducted. No file handling fee and no hourly billing: quote and invoice carry the same figure, and indicative ranges are set out on the Pricing page.
Do you work directly inside a website?
Yes. The XLIFF exports from WordPress and Shopify allow translation without breaking the structure, the links or the formatting. Title tags, meta descriptions and alt text are handled like body copy: they are what makes you visible in Dutch and in English.
A term does not suit us. What happens then?
Tell us within fifteen days and the correction costs nothing. The chosen term then joins your glossary, including when it reflects a house usage rather than a mistake.
What pace do you hold on a large volume?
A translator manages around 2 000 words per working day, revision included. Beyond that the team splits the text around a single glossary, after which a final harmonising read evens out the style.
What place do you give to machine translation?
None without your written agreement. On a large volume with limited exposure, post-editing can make sense; we then say so plainly and the choice stays yours.
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.