ELEVEN jobs have been saved at a glass firm.

Last November Pilkington announced it was to transfer the operation at its Bath Lane site in the city centre to Bristol at the end of 2008, following a regional business review.

The aluminium wing of the business was put up for sale putting 11 jobs at risk.

AB Glass (Doors and Windows) has successfully acquired the department.

The company's workforce has now grown to 60.

The former Pilkington employees have now been relocated to the company's production facility, at Felinfach, on the Swansea West Business Park, Fforestfach.

AB Glass (Doors and Windows) is a leading aluminium uPVC and glass product supplier, specialising in the manufacture and installation of commercial and domestic windows, doors, curtain-walling, and related products and services.

It was established in 1991 on Swansea West Business Park.

"We are extremely pleased and excited with this acquisition," said AB Glass managing director Alan Brayley.

"It demonstrates our commitment to our growth plans, even in this economic climate.

"It is also testament to our commitment to continually source local staff.

"And we are pleased that we are securing 11 positions of the ex-Pilkington employees.

"We look to embrace their knowledge and experience so that as a company we can further expand and develop our product range and services to meet our customers' demands and expectations well into the future."

AB Glass seems to be thriving despite the current economic climate.

One of its contracts includes work at Penyrheol Comprehensive School worth around £500,000.

Mr Brayley said the company hoped to achieve even more.

"We are finding things really good at the moment," he said.

"We are continually looking at growing the business in the future.

"Most of our business is in the health and education sector, and the Government is continuing to invest in both of these.

"We are excited about the Olympics coming to London in 2012 because we'll have more work generated from that."