About SAC
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) works with more than 9,000 facilities and 150 brands and retailers in more than 80 countries across the global apparel, footwear, and textile industry. SAC members develop the Higg Index, a suite of tools that assess social and environmental sustainability practices across the value chain to drive improved performance.
Background:
- Highly Technical translations of their Higg Index into eight languages.
Languages:
- Bengali
- Vietnamese
- Chinese Simplified
- Portuguese
- Turkish
- Japanese
- Italian
- Latin American Spanish
How Translations have benefited SAC
Higg Index translation reduces misunderstandings and improves SAC’s relationships with global facilities. SAC’s relationships with their members have also improved because they can confidently offer their value chain partners translated materials, which improves the user experience.
Tools Used to ensure confidence in the quality of translations.
Validation Platform: The Validation Platform helped SAC members smoothly and systematically review the translations. Higg Index content is so abundant, being able to save all of SAC’s previous translations and reuse them made the process even more efficient and user-friendly.
“It’s wonderful to work with the Straker team! All our questions and requests are addressed promptly. We appreciate how engaged and supportive Straker staff is when working with the translation validators as well. Our global users rely on us to deliver the Higg Index tools and guidance on ambitious timelines, and the Straker team works closely with us to ensure we meet those timelines.”
Words from SAC
“Straker has been a great partner and supporter of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. We continue to work on developing even clearer translations to be as precise as possible. The Coalition works with a high volume of technical and industry-specific content that is not always easy to translate and that evolves over time. Catching any misinterpretations and improving the quality of the translations is an ongoing process. “
“We have invested quite a bit in translation given the global nature of our work, and we’ve always found Straker’s pricing to be reasonable, especially over time as we have reintroduced previously translated content. “
