Company website

Company website

BOARDMAN

Diamond Roofing Systems is a full-service roofing company, with locations in Warren and Akron, that provides services for both commercial and residential roofs to customers in north-central and Northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania.

Boardman-based Farris Marketing created a new website for Diamond that includes information about its services and safety protocols, an extensive photo gallery of projects, a news and blog section and a project estimate form.

Farris also developed new positioning and the primary marketing theme for Gilbert’s Insurance, a Sharon, Pa.-based insurance agency whose history reaches back to 1854. Farris also is creating an all-new, mobile-responsive website for the organization.

TDDS classes

RAVENNA

TDDS Technical Institute, based in Lake Milton, will open a satellite classroom at the Maplewood Career Center to offer truck-driver training.

TDDS Tech has been training professional truck drivers and diesel technicians for more than 42 years.

The classroom portion of the program will be taught at 7075 state Route 88. The students will complete their hands-on driving at the main campus in Lake Milton.

If eligible, students will be able to apply for federal student financial assistance.

If interested in enrolling, call Michael at 330-296-2892 to set up a personal tour and interview. Classes start March 7 and will begin monthly thereafter.

Builder confidence

WASHINGTON

U.S. homebuilders are feeling less confident about their sales prospects ahead of the spring home-selling season, though they remain positive overall that the housing market will continue to improve this year.

The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder-sentiment index released Tuesday slipped to 58 this month, down 3 points from a revised reading of 61 in January.

The index had been hovering in the low 60s since June. Readings above 50 indicate more builders view sales conditions as good, rather than poor.

Builders’ view of current sales conditions and a measure of traffic by prospective buyers declined. But their outlook for sales over the next six months edged higher.

The latest readings come as the annual spring buying season ramps up. Typically, the season sets the pattern for residential hiring and construction for much of the rest of the year.

US, Cuba flight deal

HAVANA

The United States and Cuba signed a deal Tuesday restoring commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades, allowing dozens of new daily flights to bring hundreds of thousands more American travelers a year to the island as early as this fall.

Immediately after the signing, the U.S. Department of Transportation opened bidding by American air carriers on as many as 110 U.S.-Cuba flights a day – more than five times the current number. All flights operating between the two countries today are charters.

Staff/wire report