New Managing Director
Lene Lauridsen, 44, has worked as a state-authorised translator (German) in Translation House of Scandinavia for the past ten years. She was soon appointed head of the German translation department, and seven years ago she was offered a partnership in the company. During the past couple of years, Lene has acted as Deputy Managing Director as well as being involved in HR and process optimisation and development.
New business areas
“It is a great challenge and very exciting to be the head of Translation House of Scandinavia – not least because of all the new business areas we are currently focusing on. Many of our customers are, for example, showing a keen interest in the implementation of company-specific termbases, and we have the technology required to offer flexible, customised and reasonably priced solutions,” says Translation House of Scandinavia’s new Managing Director.
Translation House of Scandinavia has in recent years seen satisfactory and stable growth in revenue, thanks, among other things, to a number of large EU contracts.
The former managing director and the company’s principal shareholder, Kim Nepper Jensen, will remain a member of the Board of Directors.
Support your corporate communication and avoid losses
By Jesper O. Andersen
By investing in a termbase, your company can avoid costly errors and misunderstandings as well as saving valuable time. Two clicks are all it takes for your employee to find the relevant terms and thus ensure that customers, colleagues and business partners are served correctly, swiftly and effectively; at the same time, the termbase helps support your corporate image.
“It takes very little to streamline and avoid errors in your communication. A termbase makes your company’s terminology available to all relevant parties, across departments and national borders, and contributes to boosting the quality of your communication in addition to saving lots of time,” says Birgitte Forné.
For more information about how your company can save time and money by implementing a termbase, or if you want to hear about our experience with implementing these, please contact Translation House of Scandinavia’s Sales and Marketing Manager, Birgitte Forné.
Technical EU legislation in Danish
By Annette Lassen
The so-called technical regulations are the EU member states’ legislation within a specific technical area, ranging from licences to remote bingo and casino games in the UK to banning specific vessels from sailing in a named bay in Germany and operating ventilation systems in road tunnels. Member state proposals for technical regulations are translated from all EU languages into Danish so that the Danish authorities and any other stakeholders can check that the proposals comply with the relevant EU legislation and do not hinder the free movement of goods and services.
10 years of experience
“Translation House of Scandinavia has extensive experience from the translation of EU texts as we have translated several million words under our contracts with the European Parliament and the European Commission over the past ten years,” says Managing Director Lene Lauridsen. “This contract was, however, concluded with one of our collaboration partners in Luxembourg.”
Taking our own medicine
by Jesper Overgaard Andersen
“When translating our website, www.oversaetterhuset.dk, into Swedish, English and German, we used the functionality which we developed in collaboration with Synkron A/S (now DynamicWeb) in 2005,” says Torben Dahl Jensen, Language Technology Manager in Translation House of Scandinavia. “With the Via Translation Manager application, you can reduce the time normally spent cutting web content from a Danish version and pasting it into other language versions by up to 95 per cent,” Torben continues.
“Using the application ourselves was a very useful exercise, and we can now pass on our experiences to those of our customers who want to have their SynkronVia website translated,” says Birgitte Forné, Sales & Marketing Manager.
You are welcome to contact Birgitte Forné at bfo@oversaetterhuset.dk if you want more information about Translation Manager or about website translations. Translation House of Scandinavia has also been involved in developing similar tools for other CMS systems.
EU contract for Translation House of Scandinavia
by Anja Lund
A weekly translation volume of 50,000 words is produced by a team of highly experienced trade mark translators in collaboration with other experienced internal and external translators.
The 15-person strong team is, of course, managed internally by two dedicated in-house project managers.
The night is dark as gold
by Jesper Overgaard Andersen
For several years, Translation House of Scandinavia has enjoyed an exemplary collaboration with the Danish law firm Kromann Reumert on handling urgent English-Danish legal translations; when we received an enquiry to assist in connection with Carlsberg and Heineken’s acquisition of Scottish & Newcastle, we immediately sprang into action. On the face of it, the assignment looked like a normal rush job – however, we ended up working well into the very early hours. As usual, we put together a team of experienced legal translators, and kept in regular contact with the legal team at Kromann Reumert. The 40-page translation was delivered on time on Wednesday, but it soon became apparent that, because of the ongoing negotiations, the original document would have to be revised before it was ready for publishing.
So, while the parties negotiated for all they were worth, we translated and updated the latest versions in real time throughout Thursday-Friday night, which involved no fewer than three revised versions of the document. In order to meet the final deadline – 7.45 Friday morning – beauty sleep was put on hold by our dedicated team. Of course, the fact that the takeover, the biggest in Denmark to date, was successful for Carlsberg makes the assignment even more interesting to think back on.
A grip on medicines, a grip on terminology
by Steffen Karlsen
The solution can be used together with the Danish Medicines Agency’s translation tools, and it can also be made accessible to external translators if the Danish Medicines Agency requires additional translating capacity for a period.
When Translation House of Scandinavia hosts the terminology database, the Danish Medicines Agency avoids having to allocate internal resources to support, updates and any upgrades. In other words, a solution which enables the Danish Medicines Agency’s translators to focus on their primary assignments.
