LOCSTUDIO AS was established in 2000, and is a small Norwegian translation company run by two Norwegian localization specialists - Sissel Havstein and Carl Alexander Hopland. We are mainly involved in the translation and localization of general and technical texts, including marketing material, software and documentation. Our services also include quality assurance, terminology management, testing and bugfixing of software. Our specialty is computer related material.

The source language is mainly English, but we can also translate from other Scandinavian languages. The target language is Norwegian.

We have several years of relevant experience from Berlitz GlobalNET (now Bowne Global Solutions), and we have been involved in localization of software, help files and documentation, proofreading, terminology management, preprocessing, file management, testing and bugfixing. We have also been involved in evaluation of test translations, maintenance of the freelance database, internal training, project and resource planning, language and tools support, quality assurance, language coordination, customer and vendor contact, terminology management, writing guidelines, etc.

We have been involved in projects like Microsoft Office, Windows, IIS, Oracle, Adobe, Dell, Toshiba, Symantec, Nokia, John Deere, Google, etc.

We can offer competitive prices, being a small business with low overheads. We are quick and efficient, but never compromise on the quality of the products we deliver.

We are equipped with powerful PCs, Macs and a wide range of hardware and software, enabling us to meet most requirements in terms of delivery format.