Multilingual translation of technical manuals for tobacco processing machines

The customer

Garbuio Dickinson s.p.a. is a world leader in the design and production of tobacco processing machines. Ability Services has served this customer since 2005.

Requested service

Translation of technical manuals relating to machines and plants for the production and processing of tobacco. We have so far worked in 10 languages ​​(Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, Polish, Greek, Chinese) starting from texts in as many languages. In addition to the translation activity, respect for the original structure and layout is always required, with particular formats that are not always easy to process (Xml, DITA).

Solutuions

Teams were set up for each target language, with mother tongue translators who processed the texts, in many cases using industry experts to define reference vocabularies and DTP experts for maintaining and adapting the structure and original format.