Translation by industry
Regulated industries do not fail on grammar, they fail on terminology and traceability. Here is what each sector actually demands of a language partner.
Legal Translation and Interpreting
Legal language work is governed by the forum, not by preference. The court, tribunal or registry that receives the document decides what certification counts, and a translation certified the wrong way is rejected regardless of how accurate it is. That question gets answered before the work starts.
Read the pageLife Sciences and Clinical Translation
In life sciences the translation is part of the regulatory submission, not an accessory to it. Informed consent has to be understood by the participant, device instructions have to exist in the market's language to be sold there, and outcome measures have to be validated rather than merely translated.
Read the pageSoftware and Technology Localization
Software localization fails on structure more often than on wording. Strings arrive without context, plural forms are hard-coded to English rules, placeholders get reordered, and layouts assume English length. Fixing those four things does more for quality than any change of translator.
Read the pageFinancial Translation and Interpreting
Financial language looks translatable and is not. Accounting terms are defined by the framework they belong to, so a term under IFRS, US GAAP and Brazilian CPC can share a dictionary equivalent and mean three different things. The reporting calendar then removes the time to catch it.
Read the pageManufacturing and Technical Translation
In manufacturing, the translation is part of the product. A manual, a warning label, an HMI string and an operator training session all describe the same machine, and if they disagree about what a part is called, the operator is the one who resolves the contradiction — usually at the wrong moment.
Read the pageEnergy, Oil and Gas Translation
Energy projects generate three kinds of language work at once: a tender package that has to be legally readable in the host country, a safety layer that is regulated word by word, and people on a site who need to understand each other today. They travel on different clocks and are best scoped separately.
Read the pageMarketing Translation and Transcreation
Marketing is the one content type where a faithful translation can still fail. A headline that works in English may land flat, formal or faintly absurd in Portuguese. So the job is split: translate what carries information, and rewrite what carries persuasion.
Read the pageTell us what needs translating
Send the files, the language pair and the deadline. You will get a fixed quote and a named project manager.