The year 2009, anniversary of the 50 years Jubilee since the Faculty of Wood Industry was founded, ended with a positive balance for our faculty and significant achievements, as pointed out in the Editorial within the December issue. So as to ensure optimum unfolding of the activities within the PRO LIGNO Foundation in 2010 as well, on the 17th of February 2010, a Meeting of the Founding Members took place.            Beside discussing and approving the financial balance for 2009, the following were established:
     - Financial support from founding members, to continue with both the printed format of PRO LIGNO
     Journal and abstracts publishing online, withim own website;
     - Preparation of logistics for the shift to professional electronic format;
     - Increasing the journal visibility inside the country, through involvement of founding members within the
     distribution process.
           On this occasion, it was agreed that the electronic format would enhance reducing the production costs, and it would also enhance international access throught unrestrained internet access, which would potentially increase the number of citations and raise the impact factor of the journal, which would finally enhance achieving complete international recognition - which is the major objective of the editorial board.            However, this would affect the internal distribution market, for which the printed version is still the preferred alternative. This is the reason why it was agreed that the printed version should be further maintained. We hereby thank the founding members for the awarded trust and support and we hope that the Romanian companies will appreciate this decision and will show increasing interest towards scientific speciality-specific literature, and will further support the publication of PRO LIGNO journal through subscription, advertising and repartition of 2% from 2009 income taxes towards PRO LIGNO Foundation !            As far as we - the Editorial Board - are concerned, we will try our best to keep up the scientific level, diversity and graphic quality of the journal, so as to offer our readers pleasant and also interesting lecturing moments.

Prof.dr.ing. Gavril BUDAU Dean and Executive Manager of PRO LIGNO Foundation