HUNDREDS of jobs are to go at a Huddersfield firm.
Now workers at the crisis-hit group are waiting to hear further details on plans to axe 300 jobs.
Edgerton-based building products group Heywood Williams said a "significant" cut in employment costs was vital to help restore the group to profitability.
Heywood Williams said it was not yet clear where the jobs axe would fall.
But the loss-making group said it planned to sell or close Cestrum Building Products, its plastic doors and windows plant, which employs about 140 people at Red Doles Lane in Huddersfield.
Other businesses likely to be hit include manufacturing sites in Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, Cheshire and Lincolnshire.
In total, 300 jobs, or 15% of the total workforce, will go.
Heywood Williams said the cost of the cutbacks would total £25m - with £12m of that in 2003 and 2004.
A spokesman for Heywood Williams said the group regretted the measures, but said they were vital to "remove loss-making activities and to improve efficiency" and create a "solid position" for the future.
The shock move follows an in-depth review which highlighted serious problems for the group.
Chairman Hamish Bryce, who carried out the three-month review, has also resigned from the Edgerton-based group with immediate effect.
Roger Boyes, deputy chairman, becomes executive chairman as the group also hunts for a new chief executive to replace Ian Stuart who resigned in July.
The group had pinned some of its hopes for future growth on new products, including Centralock, a central locking system for the house.
It had also developed Fibrex, a new material for doors and window combining the good looks of wood with the toughness and flexibility of plastic.
And it launched Easy-Fab, a service allowing people to buy pre-made doors and windows over the internet.
But neither Centralock nor Easy-Fab had met revenue expectations.
The group said it had also been hit by excess stocks of slow-moving lines.
Heywood Williams said it expected no improvement during the second half of the year. The group announced losses of £1.7m in the first six months of its financial year.
The group blamed a weak UK autumn market for doors, windows and conservatories, poor results from the last two months of its Coldseal business before its sale in August and low profit margins at its US plastic pipes operation.
Heywood Williams said it had not yet decided whether or not to pay shareholders a final dividend for 2003.
