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As a member of the ATC, we know you have stories to tell about your business; stories that show why you value ATC membership; stories that share your examples of best practice; stories that showcase what our industry has to…
Global Britain
In the UK, there’s a lot of talk about a new “Global Britain”, post-Brexit. It’s not entirely clear what that is yet, but it sure isn’t going to go global without language services enabling multilingual communication. So far we’ve established…
Video: A Brief History of the ATC
ATC has been at the forefront in the development of language industry standards since the inception of the European translation services standard, EN 15038, published in 2006. The standard, in whose development ATC experts’ work was instrumental, was the first…
A new beginning: ATC’s vision and mission
We are proud to introduce you to ATC’s new leadership and Council, experts in the language services industry who are taking the Association of Translation Companies forward. Ruth Partington, Chair, RP Translate Dan Peachey, Vice Chair, Intonation Raisa McNab, Chief…
New Chair and new-look Council for the ATC
The new Chair of the Association of Translation Companies (ATC) is Ruth Partington, who replaces Roy Allkin after he formally stood down at our recent AGM. Ruth, who steps up from Vice Chair, founded long-standing ATC member RP Translate in…
ATC loses a Chair, gains a Chief Executive
Dear ATC Members, My time as ATC Chair is drawing to a close. I’ll be stepping down at the upcoming AGM, which coincides with our Summit in Cardiff, packed with speakers and delegates making a difference and making a business…
ATC Certification awards first MTPE standard certificates
The ATC’s ISO Certification Service has awarded TranslateMedia and Sandberg Translation Partners (STP) certification to machine translation post-editing standard ISO 18587. TranslateMedia and STP are the first two UK-based language service providers to be certified to the standard and the…
Annual ATC research shows UK language services market is still booming
The UK’s language services industry grew by 7% in 2016 and will have grossed more than £1.15bn in 2017, according to our annual Language Services Market report. We appointed an independent researcher to analyse the work of the UK’s 1,200…
Meeting the vital need for the UK’s linguists of the future
The Government needs to take action now to ensure there are enough home-grown translators in a post-Brexit Britain where effective global communication will be vital for the economy’s future, according to the Association of Translation Companies (ATC). It is making…