AN award-winning translation company is gearing up to tackle the huge French automotive industry by exhibiting at the industry's main showcase.

Midland Technical Translations in Kidderminster already boasts Renault among its customers, is exhibiting at the Equip exhibition in Paris this week.

The company, which has won several awards for service, says it will be looking for more business from French companies that need to translate technical manuals into other languages in order to export.

Managing director Sue Clark said: "The French automotive industry is a huge exporter but it is well aware that translations into English and other languages need to be technically perfect.

"We have a track record of this stretching over 20 years."

Sue took over the company two years ago.

"We are also increasingly attracting British companies that want to get into the lucrative French market," she added.