Sworn Translation in Osmaniye

Osmaniye is a small province, but iron and steel production puts its translation demand well above its size. The character of the files that come from here follows from that production: documents holding more tables than text, more figures than sentences. A firm selling a steel product has to deliver the identity of that product just as much as the product itself.

In documents of this kind the success of a translation is measured by fidelity, not by fluency. There is nothing to be gained from turning a fine sentence in an inspection certificate; a unit or a standard number written wrongly, on the other hand, puts the whole shipment at risk. That is why our working priority on files from Osmaniye is the accuracy of the data.

Inspection and quality certificates

With steel products the buyer asks for a material inspection certificate. That certificate sets out the chemical composition of the heat, its mechanical properties, tensile and yield strength, heat treatment details and the heat number. The text part of the document is short; the real content is the table. In translation the priority is to carry the structure of the table and the units across without disturbing them. A decimal separator or a unit prefix slipping out of place is enough for the buyer to reject the goods.

Standard designations are likewise kept exactly as they stand in these documents. It is not right to “explain” a standard number or to render it with a local equivalent; the number is an international reference and is carried across unchanged.

The paperwork logistics brings with it

The province’s position in logistics adds a second cluster alongside the industrial documents: carriage contracts, storage and handling agreements, insurance policies, damage survey reports. Because the translation bears directly on the amount of compensation in damage files, the descriptions in those reports have to be carried across word for word.

Document	Where the content sits	Priority in translation
Material inspection certificate	Tables and numerical data	Integrity of units and values
Declaration of conformity to standards	Short text, reference numbers	Preserving the standard designations
Carriage contract	Legal text	Liability clauses
Damage report	Descriptive text	Exact transfer of the descriptions
Agricultural produce documents	Analysis results	Units of measurement
Investigation questionnaire	Cost and sales data	Matching of the accounting items
Written submission in defence	Legal text and list of annexes	Consistency of the reference numbers
Dealership agreement	Commercial provisions	Preserving the limits of authority
Storage and handling agreement	Operational provisions	Definitions of liability and periods

How Arabic and English divide the work

In Osmaniye these two languages do different jobs. English is used in the technical documents for steel products and in references to international standards; wherever the goods are going, the inspection certificate is usually wanted in that language. Arabic comes into play in direct sales to the markets of the region, in commercial contracts and in documents of authority. We have compiled the document and approval expectations by destination country on the countries page.

Origin investigations and correspondence in defence

Steel is one of the product groups to which safeguard measures are most often applied in international trade. That creates an unexpected translation need for exporting firms: answering questionnaires in investigations opened by foreign authorities, submitting cost and production data, preparing written submissions in defence. These files are both bulky and subject to strict deadlines.

The data called for in the questionnaires comes out of the accounting records: unit costs, capacity utilisation rates, sales listings, details of raw material purchases. The priority in translating them is that the table headings and the accounting items match the concepts the authority expects. A single item matched wrongly can bring the whole body of data into question.

In the submissions themselves the language is legal. The grounds put forward against the allegation, and the numbering of the supporting documents, have to be carried across in full. Because the deadlines are so short, our way of working on these files is to take the documents piece by piece in the order they arrive; waiting for the whole set to be ready is often not possible.

Finding technical language in a small province

We have no branch in Osmaniye and, to be honest, reaching a translator on the spot who commands metallurgical terminology is not easy in a small province in any case. The value of working remotely here is access to a pool of expertise that owes nothing to geography. Documents arrive online, the translation is done at the office in Ankara, and the wet-signed copy follows by courier. If you have inspection certificates that repeat, setting up a template once brings the process down to a matter of hours on later shipments. To get started, send us your document.

This page is provided for guidance; courier times can vary with distance and with the carrier’s schedule. For the conditions that apply, consult the authority’s current list of required documents.