Customers will continue to be served by the same outside sales representative team that operates from Southern Paper's offices in Southampton and Shoreham.

In a letter to customers, Southern Paper regional managing director Simon Pilkington said: "Our existing outside sales team will remain unchanged and therefore there will be no change to existing representation.

"There will also be absolutely no change whatsoever to your current deliveries – our delivery vehicles will continue to operate from the existing warehouse location."

The company said it is too early to say whether any other PaperCo staff will be affected by the closure, although a period of consultation is now under way with what is believed to about 10 affected employees at the Camberley site.

Pilkington said: "Like every business at the moment, PaperCo has to review its cost base and make cuts to safeguard profit margins.

"Where this is necessary, it will be done extremely sensitively to ensure customers still have the same high levels of service and response."

Following the closure, the company now has three warehouses at Southampton, Shoreham and Canterbury.