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Industrial & Manufacturing Translation


Alafranga has translated technical documentation for industrial manufacturing since 2002: installation, operating and maintenance manuals, safety documentation, specifications and spare parts documentation, in Turkish and more than 40 languages in total. Since 2009, our project system has recorded 244 projects with manuals and technical documentation for 73 clients (April 2026).

On the shop floor, language is part of operations. A misread instruction causes downtime, misuse or an accident; a specification with a swapped value causes scrap at a supplier.

For machines going to Turkey, a Turkish manual is not optional. What else is required is shown in the overview below.

 

▮What Turkey Requires for Machinery

Machinery shipped to Turkey needs more than a translated manual. The Turkish machinery regulation published in October 2026 follows EU Regulation 2023/1230; some provisions apply from 20 January 2027.

Document Is translation enough? What else applies in Turkey
Operating and maintenance instructions Yes Must be in Turkish and easy to understand; distributors check this.
Safety notices on the machine Yes, for the text Wording should match the Turkish manual.
EC declaration of conformity Yes Signed by the manufacturer or its authorised representative.
Safety data sheets for lubricants and consumables No Under KKDIK, prepared by a chemical assessment expert (KDU) certified in Turkey. Compliance, Safety & Standards
Spare parts catalogue Yes No statutory language requirement; terms should match manual and controls.

This overview reflects the regulations in force in October 2026. For a specific product, confirm the requirements with your notified body or regulatory adviser.

▮What We Translate

  • Machinery and equipment: installation and commissioning manuals, operating and maintenance instructions, operator notices and spare parts catalogues.
  • Plant operations and heavy industry: safety documentation, environmental compliance files, process descriptions, equipment specifications and plant manuals.
  • Components and supply chain: data sheets, material specifications, certificates, inspection reports and supplier documentation, where the same terms must hold across several supply tiers.
  • Engineering and production: design documentation, prototype test reports, calculations, assembly instructions and quality documentation for plants in several countries.

▮Where Errors in Technical Documentation Occur

Errors appear in predictable places. We check these specifically:

  • Values, units and tolerances
  • Signal words and hazard levels: DANGER, WARNING and CAUTION become TEHLİKE, UYARI and DİKKAT in Turkish and must not be interchanged
  • Order and completeness of procedural steps
  • Component names that must match across manual, spare parts catalogue and control interface
  • Terminology drift between versions and language versions

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