Launched in September 2005, at the International Fair BIFE-TIMB 2005, PRO LIGNO Journal celebrates now 4 years of existence. On this occasion we wish to thank all those who contributed to the launching, promotion and development of this journal from the stage of a newcomer in the series of wood engineering-specific publications to the stage of a scientific journal, acknowledged at national and international level, distributed in over 15 countries.
           In first line, we wish to thank the six wood-processing enterprises - founding members and financial pillars of PRO LIGNO Foundation - who, beside the "Transilvania" University from Brasov had the courage and trust to create this foundation at the Faculty of Wood Industry. Thus, a dream-project conceived and thought over for many years by prof.dr.eng. Ivan CISMARU was possible to come true: the editing of an own scientific publication at this unique Romanian faculty, meant to become the dissemination vector of the latest results of Romanian and foreign research in the field of wood engineering.
           We also wish to thank the 26 members of the Editorial Board, who performed volunteer work during these years, ensuring through their performance in-time appearance of all 16 numbers published so far, as well as the quality and diversity of the published materials. PRO LIGNO has an original structure, combining scientific information with enterprise presentations, reports from different events, announcements of recent publications and recently defended PhD-theses, articles on furniture design, as well as flash news in the field.
           A scientific journal proves its quality level not necessarily by the number of sold issues, but through its recognition by certified scientific forums. Thus, the national recognition by the National Council of Scientific Research in Higher Education obtained first in 2006 and re-confirmed in 2008 as a CNCSIS B+ type journal, was an important step, which we are proud of. The indexing of PRO LIGNO by the international database Academic Search Complete hosted by EBSCO Publishing Ltd. USA in June 2007 constituted a further step which promoted PRO LIGNO as an international journal. The strengths due to which these recognition was possible, are: geographical diversity of publishing authors (72 foreign authors from 17 countries published up to date articles in PRO LIGNO), the scientific level of the articles due to strict review made by renown specialists in the field, complete bilingual content (Romanian and English), punctuality in appearance and the exquisite graphical presentation.
           You might ask yourselves how it is possible to achieve such a good and nice thing under the difficult present situation ? The answer can be resumed to one word: by DEDICATION. This is the way how we, the present staff of the Wood Industry Faculty in Brasov try to honour our precursors, to launch challenges to younger peple who might wish to follow us and also to leave something behind that is worth to be continued.

MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY, PRO LIGNO !

Editorii / The Editors