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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Lohnfertigung

English translation:

subcontracting

Added to glossary by Marcus Malabad
May 4, 2001 05:00
25 yrs ago
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German term

Lohnfertigung

Die auf Lohnfertigung und Service ausgerichteten Unternehmen lieferten ebenfalls die erwarteten Ergebnisse ab.
Change log

Dec 9, 2010 08:40: Steffen Walter changed "Field (specific)" from "(none)" to "Manufacturing"

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Proposed translations

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subcontracting (services)

According to GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit), this is referred to as subcontracting or subcontracting services or in your case "companies concentrating on subcontracting". In the textile industry this is also called CMT services or cutting, making and trimming. In such cases, a company is subcontracted to cut, make and trim shirts or pants, etc. One site (sort of) confirms this: http://www.kern-microtechnic.com/html/fpgbnews.html

Good luck!
Reference:

Personal experience

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job order production

Term found in Mr. Honeys Dictionary -> See: www.leo.org
See some sites on Google:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=job order production&num=1...
thjat substantiate this term.
Reference:

Honey's / Google

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manufacturing, production, fabrication

The term seems to be commonly used in German to imply manufacturing of items (e.g. machine parts) to someone else's order or specification. The trick is to find a term which is as unspecific as "service" to describe this.

I would have thought you could translate "auf Lohnfertigung und Service ausgerichteten Unternehmen" as "manufacturing and service companies" without losing much of the meaning. If you want to be more specific, perhaps "manufacturing subcontractors and service companies" would be better
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contract production

Hamblock/Wessels offer "wage-band/contract production".

Good luck,

Steve Martin
Reference:

Hamblock/Wessels

Peer comment(s):

Ulrike Lieder (X)
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