Martha Thompson and Joanne Marie Wright of insolvency practitioner BDO were appointed to the company on 14 September 2010. After a review of the business, the company has ceased to trade, with all 11 employees made redundant.

Buhrs went into administration in the Netherlands and Germany in June, before being bought by investment companies Value 8 and Solo Capital in August.

Peter Paul De Vries, chief executive and founder of Value 8 said that of all Buhrs' worldwide subsidiaries, it was not possible to continue with its UK one.

He said: "All spare part and services enquiries should be directed to Buhrs Netherlands at the moment. We are in a number of discussions to find a UK agent. Kern will deal with some distribution enquiries, but we are also in discussions over finding a UK distributor."

Kern was set to take on distributing for Buhrs in the UK in May, but when the parent company went into administration it said it would be "keeping an eye on the situation", Kern was unavailable for comment.