Credentials
and certificate numbers
Issuing body, certificate number, scope and expiry — listed in full below.
Both ISO certificates carry the same original cycle start date — 1 November 2008 — and have been re-audited on schedule every cycle since. The current certificates run to November 2028. The certified scope has always been “provision of translation and localization service”; it has never been narrowed or amended.
The certificates
ISO 17100:2015 Translation Services
Translation-specific- Certificate
- 20138-UK
- Issued by
- Bureau Veritas Certification Holding SAS — UK Branch · UKAS 0008
- Scope
- Provision of translation and localization service
- First certified
- 2008-11-01
- Valid until
- 2028-11-28
The translation-specific standard. Unlike ISO 9001 — a general quality management standard open to any industry — ISO 17100 sets mandatory requirements for translator qualifications, an independent revision step, and process traceability.
ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management
- Certificate
- 195947-UK
- Issued by
- Bureau Veritas Certification Holding SAS — UK Branch · UKAS 0008
- Scope
- Provision of translation and localization service
- First certified
- 2008-11-01
- Valid until
- 2028-11-28
2015 revision, certified and re-audited on the same cycle as ISO 17100.
American Translators Association — Member
- Issued by
- The American Translators Association (founded 1959)
- Since
- 2001
Continuous member since 2001, subscribing to the ATA Code of Ethics and Professional Practice — joined the year after the company was founded.
CSA Research — Top 100 Language Service Providers
- Issued by
- CSA Research (formerly Common Sense Advisory)
- Since
- 2015
Listed continuously since 2015.
Translators Association of China — Council Member
- Certificate
- LD24199
- Issued by
- Translators Association of China (TAC)
- Valid until
- 2026-11-30
Council membership — a senior membership tier within the national industry body, above ordinary membership.
ISO 9001 and ISO 17100 are not the same thing
They are routinely conflated in procurement. They require different things.
- Open to any industry
- Requires documented processes and defined responsibility
- Says nothing about who translates, or how it is reviewed
- Applies only to translation service providers
- Mandates translator qualification thresholds
- Mandates an independent revision step — a translator may not review their own work
- Mandates process traceability
Tenders and enterprise procurement increasingly name ISO 17100 specifically. ISO 9001 alone shows a company is run to a documented system; it does not evidence that the translation process itself meets a standard.
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