A group of men who lost their jobs when the smelting plant they worked at in Holyhead closed have started their own firm.
The four, who all worked on the same shift at the site run by Anglesey Aluminium, have set up Mon Maintenance Service, the BBC reports.
Andrew Samuel, Andrew Williams, Wayne Allman and Stephen Evans were among the 390 people who were made redundant when the plant was closed last year.
But they have now started their own firm after making use of government schemes aimed helping workers who lose their jobs.
They signed up to the ReAct programme - which has been set up by the Welsh Assembly Government and used some of their redundancy money to get the firm off the ground.
It will give businesses and the public around Holyake engineering and electrical maintenance services and Mr Evans said all four were determined not to move from the area after they were out of work.
"We are all local lads and young families and it's a nice place to live so we agreed to set up our own company," Mr Evans said.
He added that while there is work available in the area, a lot of it seems to be taken up by people from elsewhere who are brought in on a contract basis.
Jeremy May and Eva Chloe Vazaka are two more people who have had success with setting up a business after they were made redundant.
The pair, who are married, started their own enterprise selling jewellery made from old books after they both lost their jobs in the architecture industry in November 2008, according to the Wandsworth Guardian.
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