History and Overview

The company, Eclipse Translations Ltd, was formed in December 1996 and has been a wholly owned subsidiary of RWS

RWS Group

- History :With roots dating back more than 50 years, the RWS Group was created from a merger between M.H. Randall & Partners and Woolcott & Co in 1982...

 Holdings plc since 2005. Eclipse operates as a Limited Company within the RWS Group.

Eclipse Translations Ltd is a professional translation company based in Alnwick

Alnwick

Alnwick is a small market town in north Northumberland, England. The town's population was just over 8000 at the time of the 2001 census and Alnwick's district population was 31,029....

, Northumberland

Northumberland

Northumberland is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in North East England. For Eurostat purposes Northumberland is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "Northumberland and Tyne and Wear" NUTS 2 region...

 in the North East of England. The RWS Group has over 450 employees at various locations in Europe, USA, China and Japan.

Eclipse has been accredited to the ISO 9001 quality standard since 1998 and is also an accredited Investor in People. Eclipse is also member of the Association of Translation Companies (ATC) and the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) and NECC.

Services

• Translation
  Translation
  Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...
  
  : the principal area of activity is translation. Eclipse services contracts with a number of government agencies, large corporate clients and SMEs both locally and throughout The Americas and Europe. Eclipse translates into over 200 language combinations
• Interpretation: Eclipse provides face to face, conference, video and telephone interpretation services in areas such as business, social, medical, court and police
• Localisation of software, documentation and website (SEO optimization)
• Language training solution incorporating a long-term strategy of language training provision and business culture training
• Other communication support services such as Braille, BSL etc.

News Archive

• Eclipse winner of the Regional Final of the NE Business Awards 2007 in the Services category
• RWS Group Winner of the Queen’s Award for International Trade
  Queen's Awards for Enterprise
  The Queen's Awards for Enterprise is an awards programme for British businesses and other organizations who excel at international trade, innovation or sustainable development. They are the highest official UK awards for British businesses...
  
  in 1987, 1994 and 2004 and 2009
• Eclipse Translations Ltd sponsor of the Northumberland Coastal Run