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Posted on26 September 2012

How do you choose a translation agency?

How do you choose a translation agency? You may find it hard to choose who to use for your translation work –anyone can put together a nice website but can you be confident they will deliver on their promises?  How do you choose a translation agency?

We can tell you why you could choose Atlas, in a nutshell – ISO certification 9001: 2015 and 17100, members of ITI and ATC, certified translations. Nearly 30 years of experience to guide and help you get the best.

To give you a little more detail, one thing you can look for is someone who can offer you a quality assured, certified translation service – thanks to the European Standard EN 15038: 2006 – Translation Services – Service Requirements, now updated to ISO 17100. This standard covers all the important areas determining service and quality. The standard was launched in 2006 and can give you a helping hand in assessing your translation service provider. Atlas were delighted to be one of the very first companies to be awarded certification, in tandem with ISO 9001: 2015.

This means we can deliver ISO certified translations for you, every time. Read more about our Quality Assurance and ISO certification: https://www.atlas-translations.co.uk/quality-accreditation-membership/

Ask to see our up to date certificates, and any questions are welcome.
Here at Atlas, we believe the standard gives clients an objective set of assessment criteria which was missing from the translation industry. If you’d like more information about the standard, just give us a shout.

Call us on 01727 812 725 to let us know what you need and we can help. Send us an email to team@atlas-translations.co.uk . We respond quickly to all enquiries. Or use the little icons here on the website for live chat (it really is one of us) or to request a call back within 27 seconds.

If you’d like to know more about us, you can read a bit here: https://www.atlas-translations.co.uk/our-community/

You can also see us and how we look after a project here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=IKFlhkVAhCE

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