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Metermenge

English translation: yardage/no. of meters

15:33 Jul 5, 2009

German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Retail / roll goods / textile handling

German term or phrase: Metermenge

from a text about the handling of roll goods (fabric on rolls) at a Swiss company. The exact context is a (badly written) letter to a supplier detailing changes to the way fabric should be delivered. The first of a list of stipulations (unfortunately not a full sentence) is:

"Originaletiketten Lieferant mit Brutto/Netto Metermenge".

I understand people in the trade talk about "Stofflänge" and "Metermenge" but don't know either term in English.

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English translation:yardage/no. of meters

Explanation:
Metric system, or no metric system - that is the question!

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mary austria
Austria
Local time: 10:54

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yardage/no. of meters

mary austria

roll length

Birgit Gläser

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yardage/no. of meters

Explanation:
Metric system, or no metric system - that is the question!

mary austria
Austria
Local time: 10:54
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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7 hrs confidence:

roll length

Explanation:
aargh - hatte eben noch mehr Beispiele und bin dann auf den falschen Knopf gekommen. Bei Google roll&length suchen ergibt ca. 70.000 Treffer.

Wie dem auch sei - dies löst das Problem zwischen Yards und Metern. Komischerweise habe ich für die Länge nur Meterangaben gesehen, Breiten auch in Inches, aber das kann Zufall sein.

Example sentence(s):

Roll length is such a common measure that few even think about it until they get customer complaints for discrepancies.
An automotive interior supplier was suffering as a result of lengths of fabric received from its suppliers regularly being shorter than specified. The cost to the company of the short rolls was in excess ...

Reference: http://www.convertingmagazine.com/article/CA6631290.html
Reference: http://www.improvementandinnovation.com/features/project/mea...

Birgit Gläser
Germany
Local time: 10:54
Native speaker of:

German

Notes to answerer

Asker: If Metermenge = roll length, what does Stofflänge refer to?!

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