WORKERS at a Kidderminster forge face a bleak future unless a buyer is found for the site in the next few weeks, the firm's administrators have warned.
Nearly 200 jobs at UEF Automotive face the axe following an "eleventh hour" collapse of a deal which would have saved the firm, earlier this month.
Simon Griffiths, spokesman for Birmingham-based administrators KPMG, said: "We're still trading from Kidderminster and Bromsgrove and are still seeking a purchaser of the plants as a going concern.
"However, if no purchaser is found over the coming weeks it is likely we will have to wind operations down."
The Kidderminster site has already lost 66 of its 250 staff following earlier cutbacks.
Mr Griffiths added the deal being brokered for the sale of the firm's two West Midlands sites had "almost gone through" before talks broke down at the "eleventh hour" for "commercial reasons."
UEF sites at Ayr, Scotland, Sheffield, Lincoln, and Chesterfield have already been sold.
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