we bridge asia and europe
As a global brand in the translation and documentation industry, Urban Translation Services connects European, Middle Eastern, and Asian languages with its Istanbul and Barcelona offices.
Urban’s key selling points are transparency, a professional team, speed of technology, competitive prices and continuous quality control, which define Urban’s approach to business. The core team, who has been trained by Urban and in whom Urban takes great pride, along with the esteemed professionals who have since joined also work with these points in mind.
Urban’s ever-developing technological infrastructure and its three-phase production process, comprising translation-editing-proofreading are compliant with ISO 9001 and ISO 17100 standards.
Urban-İstanbul and Urban-Barcelona offices employ translators and editors specialised in automotive, medical, consumer electronics, software, law and finance in addition to a professional DTP team and project managers with a high level of experience at every stage of the workflow.
benefits
high quality service
The three-phase production process, comprising translation-editing-proofreading, is compliant with ISO 9001 and ISO 17100 standards and allows Urban to deliver high-quality translations to its customers. Technological tools incorporated in translation processes ensure that the terminology is followed and the consistency is kept between different documents.
competitive price
Urban provides its translation services, which comply with international quality standards, to its customers in different continents at competitive prices. Having operations in two large centers, namely Istanbul and Barcelona, which greatly facilitates accessing highly competent linugists in many languages turns into price advantage for Urban’s customers.
competence in technology
With its high-level technical skills and by following technological developments closely, Urban can work with any file format. Therefore, the motto “customers do not need to adapt to Urban, Urban would adapt to the customer” is at the centre of Urban’s business philosophy.
professional desktop publishing
Urban Translation Services offers complete Desktop Publishing (DTP) solutions from translation to prepress preparation. Its desktop publishing team can operate the most common desktop publishing programs for all languages on both PC and Macintosh platforms, such as Adobe InDesign, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Illustrator, AutoCAD and CorelDRAW.
network of linguists
An international network of native speaker translators ensures that Urban can provide quality language services in many widely used language pairs. Urban translates millions of words every year with expert translators who have passed meticulous quality tests in various language pairs and fields.
Urban is your branch office
Urban offers a wide range of innovative solutions to assist companies in developing their business. Urban creates systems compatible with the unique translation and documentation requirements of your company. When needed, Urban participates in the processes of its customers with its own experts at customer’s premises and works in close coordination with them.
dedicated project managers
Urban’s project managers are equipped with the required technological and academic know-how for the fields they handle. The project managers are responsible for meeting translation requirements and providing the highest quality possible. Each customer is assigned dedicated project manager(s).
24-hour accessibility
There is always someone at Urban to serve you even after office hours. You can reach your dedicated project managers both from office and mobile phones at any time required for your projects. Working hours are arranged in a way to allow Urban cover different time zones all over the world.
case studies
software localization
medical
energy
automotive
globalization
consumer electronics
finance
testimonials

"Your company gives confidence in terms of time and accuracy, particularly on technical translations. I thank you for your serious working style, the meticulousness of your business and the importance you give to customer satisfaction."

"Urban is a quite successful group, both in service quality and communication with the client. This corporation is highly advanced in terms of the value of the services supplied and speed in meeting the demand of the client."

"We find your company extremely efficient, both in terms of costs and in terms of timing. Furthermore, we feel that the time-quality ratio of your company's output is quite high, making it a prime candidate, especially for urgent or sensitive matters."

"We thank you for your support in providing accuracy and high quality in the translations we demand, ahead of our deadlines."

"We think that your services create a modern work flow for us in addition to the convenience that they have brought to our daily operations. We thank you for your high quality, reliable and excellent services."

“YOU’RE THE BEST, many thanks for all, also for us, it has been a great pleasure to work together, and we’ll repeat it!!!”

"Our in-country Turkish consultant read the entire translation and said it was ‘exact’. No changes at all from his end. That is remarkable. Please give a huge thank you to whoever did the translation."
memberships
TEKOM
European Association for Technical Communication (TEKOM) is considered to be the largest association in Europe in terms of technical communication and information development. It has almost 6000 members from all economic sectors, in many countries across Europe.
ATA
American Translators Association (ATA) is a professional association founded in the USA to develop the verbal and written translation business and to support the professional improvement of freelancers.
AHK Turkey
German - Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK Turkey) has some 600 members from every section of the German and Turkish commercial environments and it supports mutual commercial relations between Germany and Turkey.
ALC
The Association of Language Companies (ALC) is a U.S.-based international trade association, representing businesses that provide translation, interpretation, localization, language testing, and language training services across the globe.
partnerships
TCTrainNet
Urban Translation Services is at your service as the Official Sales Partner of TCTrainNet, the Technical Communicator Training Program.
TCTrainNet offers special courses for worldwide employee learning in technical communication for companies from all industry sectors.
For further information please contact:
+90 212 211 23 33
ozgur@urbantranslation.com.tr
Schema
Urban Translation Services is the authorized reseller and Silver Partner for software products of SCHEMA Consulting GmbH, a leader in content management.
SCHEMA ST4 is a highly configurable content creation and management system and offers support in all tasks related with information management.
Please contact us for further information:
+90 212 211 23 33
ozgur@urbantranslation.com.tr