Editorial

Any productive activity which leads to outcomes must take into consideration the MARKET, respectively the segment which needs and uses these outcomes (products).
The users must be informed on the existence on the market of these products or the intention of the producer to come out on the market with such products. The "education" of the consumers is a very important component which has to be "consumed" at the producer, so as to convince the market of the importance and opportunity of acquisitioning those products, thus demonstrating that they are fashioned, they observe the evolution of tastes and take notice of the present human options. All these requirements of the market have to be comprised in a product, as a result of sociologic, technological and conceptual studies, so as the product project to have the chance of a long-lasting lifetime. The product thus conceived must meet the market requirements, which were oriented soon enough by the producer by all kinds of actions.
The most important action with which the consumer comes in contact with the product (in prototype state) is the FAIR or the EXHIBITION organized at regional, national and international level.
The wood-processing industry in Romania organizes periodically such a meeting with the consumers" - the international fair BIFE-TIMB Bucharest - where the producers present the results of their studies - exemplified through prototypes - and also collect the impressions and suggestions to be implemented within further studies.
The studies, product designs, the fabrication management - all these are very important actions which presume specialists, experts, professionals.
The Faculty of Wood Industry in Brasov "produces" these specialists, with a complex training, who can create products in correlation with the evolution of man's expectations, and sometimes, by taking into account the nostalgia for past times - when they try reviving retro or rustic art, all adapted to the manufacturing and functionality conditions required by the modern man.
Through modern study programs, the specialists produced by the Wood Industry Faculty in Brasov gain a multidisciplinary range of skills applicable in industry, economy and social life. Their knowledge allows them to develop activities in the following fields:
     - product design;
     - programming, launching and monitoring of a manufacturing process;
     - fabrication management;
     - interior design;
     - restoration of wooden products.
When being included in industrial systems or companies specialized on different types of services, the graduates can constitute important sources of optimization of the activities within the respective fields.

Prof.dr.ing. Ivan CISMARU
Presedintele Fundatiei PRO LIGNO / President of Managerial Board of PRO LIGNO Foundation