Over the years I have dealt with a range of topics, which I have always tried to address with curiosity and seriousness, while deepening my knowledge by attending specialized courses:
- Technical subjects (general)
- Mechanics
- Electronics
- Pneumatics
- Machine tools
- Manuals
- Safety data sheets
- Patents
- Moulding and die-casting
- Metal casting and chip remelting
- IT (check out the courses that I have attended)
- Informatics & Telematics
- Data transmission networks: CAN-bus, Profibus, Ethernet
- Localization, web sites
- SAP
- Graphics and printing industry check out the specialized courses on which I have acted as an interpreter)
- Web-fed offset printing (newspapers, commercial)
- Sheet-fed offset printing
- Digital printing
- Flexo printing
- Pre-press
- Computer to Plate systems
- Plate processors
- Plate punching and bending machines
- Colour Management
- Press
- Web offset presses
- Workflow, control and register systems, press control desk technology
- Automated reel handling logistics systems
- Damping systems
- Blanket and roller wash-up devices
- Register control systems (Colour control, Colour register, Fan-out correction, Cut-off register)
- Integrated web monitoring & web inspection systems
- Stitching machines
- Finishing
- Conveying
- Stacking
- Inserting
- Storage
- Industrial automation
- Drive technology
- PLCs
- Integrated control and management systems for production departments
- Intralogistics
- Packaging Industry
- Corrugated board production lines
- Textiles
- Circular knitting machines
- Renewable energy
- Hydroelectric, wind, solar energy
- Electrical networks
- Electric transport
- Recovery and disposal of special waste
(sludge treatment, fume and dust abatement, remediation of contaminated land)
- Description of treatment/recovery/disposal processes
- Plant authorisation
- Laboratory analysis
- Test reports
- Suitability reports
- Waste characterisation
- Authorisation measures, resolutions, decrees, ordinances
- Commercial contracts
- Sector regulations
- Marketing, corporate communication
- Legal sector (check out the courses that I have attended)
- Contracts (agency, sale, lease, etc.)
- Calls for tenders
- Statutes and articles of association
- Position statements
- Judicial acts in civil, criminal, administrative law
- Interpellations and replies of the Swiss Federal Council
- Postulates and opinions of the Federal Council
- Financial sector (check out the courses that I have attended)
- Consolidated financial statements
- Financial reports
- International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS, Swiss GAAP FER
- Human resources
- e-learning
- Life Science (check out the courses that I have attended)
- Scientific texts for the pharmaceutical industry and research:
- Clinical and experimental protocols
- Informed consent
- Summary of product characteristics
- Package leaflet
- Information material for the public
- Medical devices
- National Research Programmes for the Swiss National Foundation for the promotion of scientific research
- Scientific texts for the pharmaceutical industry and research:
- Wine and oenology
- Growing up in a family of wine connoisseurs, I translated for Assovini Sicilia and for several wineries in the years when I lived in Sicily. I now live in Desenzano del Garda, which overlaps with the Lugana area, not far from Franciacorta.
- I have had the pleasure of translating a number of magazines for my home town
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