Etalon has been translating since 2010 and serves the Žilina region remotely. The region runs on car manufacturing, transport and logistics, so most of the paperwork here crosses a border: vehicle papers, freight and customs documents, declarations of conformity and supplier contracts. In those, consistent terminology decides the outcome, not style.
We have no office in Žilina and you do not need one. You send the material by email and get the finished job back by post or as an electronic sworn translation carrying the qualified electronic signature of a translator listed by the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic.
What we translate for Žilina
Most of it is text that somebody checks afterwards: a clerk registering a vehicle, a customs officer, an auditor or the customer’s buyer. We produce it in sworn form, bound and with the translator’s clause, wherever the institution asks for that; otherwise it goes out as a professional translation. The usual list:
- vehicle registration certificates, COC documents, purchase contracts and invoices for cars brought in from Czechia, Poland or Germany;
- freight and customs paperwork – CMR notes, delivery notes, customs declarations and certificates of origin;
- declarations of conformity, type approvals and test-laboratory reports;
- technical specifications, drawing callouts and safety data sheets;
- supplier and framework contracts, quotations and terms of business;
- quality documentation – audit reports, 8D reports, work instructions and operating manuals;
- employee paperwork – criminal-record extracts, birth certificates and diplomas needed when someone joins the company.
Related services
Ukrainians working in plants around Žilina have to get their papers recognised in Slovakia. We run documents from Ukraine for Slovakia end to end: the apostille on the original is filed through our own offices in Kharkiv and Kyiv, and the sworn translation into Slovak follows. The original stays in Ukraine, where we file the apostille.
Before a larger technical translation we agree a glossary: part names, item numbers, units and which decimal separator applies. A tolerance or a part number carried over wrongly is easy to miss when the text is simply read; it surfaces in the warehouse or on the line. So we settle it up front rather than in a complaint.
We keep the shape as well as the words: tables, callouts in drawings and paragraph numbering stay where they were, so the translation can be compared with the original line by line. On repeat deliveries we hold the wording identical to earlier batches.
We also interpret at supplier audits, machine handovers and negotiations with Czech, Polish and German partners, and proofread text you have translated in house. We invoice the company.
Why companies in Žilina work with us
A sworn translator from the MS SR register is authorised for the whole country, so the district office in Žilina, a court or customs accepts the translation exactly as they would one from a local provider. A company keeps one supplier for technical text, official documents and interpreting, and one place where the terminology lives. The list is in our services for the whole of Slovakia.
