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A major online auction of Paperlinx UK assets is being prepared, including warehouse racking with the capacity to hold 50,000 pallets and a host of printing and finishing kit.

As the recent woes of merchanting giant Paperlinx show, the paper industry is under pressure. Like the print market it serves, the onslaught of alternative media is shrinking demand for its core...

Kent paper merchant Fenner Paper is now exclusively stocking and distributing the Zanders Zeta range of papers in the UK following the collapse of Paperlinx's UK operation.

Premier Paper is taking on at least 30 former Paperlinx employees after agreeing a deal to acquire its reel paper operations.

Administrators at Deloitte have laid off a further 70 employees at the stricken Paperlinx UK operations.

Paperlinx is exiting Europe altogether. Its Benelux operations have been put into administration with the rest of its European operations described as being in a sale or “realisations process”.

Assets of the collapsed UK paper mill Aylesford Newsprint will be sold via online auction next month, according to consultancy firm Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH), which has been appointed to carry out...

One paper manufacturer has already set aside a multimillion-pound provision to cover its likely bad debt with Paperlinx UK.

PrintWeek understands that two bids have been tabled for the Paperlinx UK businesses in administration with Deloitte and a deal to salvage something from the operations could be imminent.

Independent paper merchant The Premier Paper Group has been appointed as the exclusive UK stockist of Tullis Russell's Advocate paper product range, which was previously sold by Paperlinx.